"Sound-of-Stirring"
Masahiro Fukuda, Peter Frances, Timothy Gay, Jessica Gardner, Gertchen English, and Drew Williams, Bret Neeld, Kristen Madeiros, Crystal Gleason, Megan Poole, Jessica Jarvis, Caroli Genis, Niki Bertrand, Juan Guerra, Sara Long, Kristina Anderson, Shane Chordas, Ugochi Nkwocha
Song: "Sound of Silence"
Artist: Paul Simon
Hello test tube my old friend,
I've come to work with you again
Upon a straight alkane I was keeping
I tried to turn it into a diene
But the two reactants
That I used were oh so wrong
Spent all day long
With just the sound... of stirring
Those two reactants weren't pure
Just a lewis base I'm sure
These thoughts were rattling within my head
I searched for answers til I was near dead
But my organic book
Was in the back seat of my car
That's way too far
To stop the sound... of stirring
But then an answer came so sweet
I'll use palladium and heat
Then to my eyes at an amazing rate
Those double bonds began to conjugate
Through my safety glasses
I stared in an utter trance
And I saw my chance
To break the sound...of stirring
But there's sometimes you just can't win
Some H2 and Ni fell in
And then ignoring everything I said
My partner added in percid
We got our product and
I thought that I would cry
An epoxide
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Back to the sound... of stirring
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So listen to the tale I tell
Or you'll end up in here as well
Hear my words and let them reach you
See my formulas, let them teach you
and remember
The answer you seek are written on
the blackboard walls and student halls
And trapped in the sound...of stirring