A/N: Inspired by something that actually happened during a study session. Organic chemistry is generally taught at the college level and is required for premeds (aka Joe). It's also required for chem and bio majors, as far as I know. Everyone does enroll in college, mostly because they realize they need the degree to get jobs once they return to the real world, even if they aren't nearly as involved as one would normally be in campus life, due to a more full-time commitment to the Digiworld. Yes, I realize this is similar to a certain DigiAnecdote I wrote maybe six years ago...
And yes. It's actually suggested to make flashcards depicting the mechanisms for organic reactions when studying orgo. As well as using model kits. Wow, I feel old and nerdy...
Davis really liked watching last minute group study sessions. They were always very loud, and mostly consisted of everyone yelling at each other and drawing pictures at the same time. So what if it was organic chemistry and he saw absolutely no use of it for himself in the future? Seeing Joe, Tai, Yolei, and Sora shouting at each other from across the room and positively flipping out was worth it.
"So glucose is a monosaccharide, and its open-chain form, which looks like this," Joe drew a quick diagram on the whiteboard, which looked a lot more like a zigzag line with a bunch of –OHs, a =O, and a –H coming off of it, "exists in solution in a cyclic form."
Tai raised his hand and pointed at the picture with a look of insight. "Which connects by having a nucleophilic reaction between the C-1 aldehyde group and either the C-4 or C-5 hydroxyl!"
Why is Tai here again? He doesn't even need orgo. Oh yeah. Orgo test challenge with Izzy. I still bet Izzy's gonna win…
"And a nucleophilic reaction happens here when a nucleophile attacks the aldehyde carbon, making the extra proton pop off so the oxygen has an extra negative charge – I think?" Yolei scratched her head, gazing at the board.
"Something like that I guess," Tai shrugged helplessly. "Where're your reaction flashcards?"
"On my desk or in the kitchen, probably. Let me see…"
She hopped off the table she had been sitting on and walked straight up to the board, grabbing a pen to write the steps.
"All right, so we've got our nice glucose… and here's our end point, with our cyclic glucose, connected by the oxygen at the C-1 and C-5 carbons… here's our lovely CH2OH, and all our OHs connected to the carbons… and I guess the way that I'm drawing it makes it an alpha glucose, which means it's got a trans arrangement… even better, it's technically an alpha-D-glucopyranose, and it kinda looks like - "
"SHEEP!"
Sora, who had also been sitting on a table, jumped off and charged at the board, grabbing a pen from a very shocked Joe. She quickly scribbled fluff around the entire main hexagon of the diagram, added eyes and ears to the 'CH2OH', and drew a small speech bubble with the phrase "Baaaaaa" to it. Then she stepped back, smiled brightly at her work, reared back her head, and laughed.
Everyone stared at her.
"… are you okay?" Davis asked tentatively.
A/N: The correct answer is No. :P