:Chicken wire (chemistry)

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or graphenes—including fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, and graphite—have a hexagonal structure that is often described as chicken wire-like.{{cite web|url=http://www.calpoly.edu/~rbrown/soccerballs.html |title=Soccerballs |publisher=Calpoly.edu |date= |accessdate=2013-11-24}}{{cite web|url=http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/glossary/g.shtml |title=General Chemistry Online: Glossary |publisher=Antoine.frostburg.edu |date= |accessdate=2013-11-24}}{{cite web|url=http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00099397-1687-1C75-9B81809EC588EF21 |title=Space Chemicals: Scientific American |publisher=Sciam.com |date= |accessdate=2013-11-24}}

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A hexagonal structure that is often described as chicken wire-like can also be found in other types of chemical compounds such as:

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• Non-aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons, e.g. steroids like cholesterol{{cite web|url=http://www.gethealthygetsmart.com/articles/cholesterol_excess_fat.asp |title=Get Healthy...Get Smart |publisher=Gethealthygetsmart.com |accessdate=2013-11-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717052743/http://www.gethealthygetsmart.com/articles/cholesterol_excess_fat.asp |archivedate=2012-07-17 }}
• Flat hexagonal hydrogen bonded trimesic acid (benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylic acid),{{cite journal|title=Structural details of carboxylic acid-based Hydrogen-bonded Organic Frameworks (HOFs)|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41428-023-00840-2 |accessdate=December 26, 2023 |last=Suzuki|first=Yuto|last2=Histaki|first2=Ichiro|journal=Polymer Journal|volume=56|date=12 October 2023}} boric acid, or melamine-cyanuric acid complexes{{cite journal

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• Interwoven molecule chains in the inorganic polymer NaAuS{{cite journal | pmid = 11670705 | volume=37 | issue=21 | title=Flux Synthesis of LiAuS and NaAuS: "Chicken-Wire-Like" Layer Formation by Interweaving of (AuS)(n)(n)(-) Threads. Comparison with alpha-HgS and AAuS (A {{=}} K, Rb) |date=October 1998 | journal=Inorg Chem | pages=5583–5587 | doi = 10.1021/ic980360b | last1 = Axtell Ea | first1 = 3rd | last2 = Liao | first2 = JH | last3 = Kanatzidis | first3 = MG}}
• Complexes of the protein clathrinhttp://bio.winona.msus.edu/wilson/cell%20biology/unit3revANSWER.doc{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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The skeletal formula is a method to draw structural formulas of organic compounds where lines represent the chemical bonds and the vertices represent implicit carbon atoms.[http://www.usm.maine.edu/~newton/Chy251_253/Lectures/LewisStructures/LewisStructures.html Template] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041130194037/http://www.usm.maine.edu/~newton/Chy251_253/Lectures/LewisStructures/LewisStructures.html |date=November 30, 2004 }} This notation is sometimes called chicken wire notation by a Stanford professor.{{cite web|url=http://kalee.tock.com/chem32/NMR1/7s.html |title=Chem 32 Virtual Manual |publisher=Kalee.tock.com |date= |accessdate=2013-11-24}}{{cite web|url=http://kalee.tock.com/chem32/ste1/ |title=Stereochemistry and Chirality Part I Problems |publisher=Kalee.tock.com |date=1995-11-07 |accessdate=2013-11-24}}{{cite web|url=http://kalee.tock.com/chem32/elena1.html |title=Chem 32 Virtual Manual |publisher=Kalee.tock.com |date= |accessdate=2013-11-24}}

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It is an old joke{{dubious|reason=Jokes are supposed to make you laugh, or be amusing, while the attached link just made me want to kill myself.|date=April 2025}} in chemistry to draw a polycyclic hexagonal chemical structure and call this fictional compound chickenwire.{{citation needed|date=April 2025}} By adding one or two simple chemical groups to this skeleton, the compound can then be named following the official chemical naming convention. An example is 1,2-Dimethyl-chickenwire in a [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927205644/http://www.nearingzero.net/screen_res/nz079.jpg cartoon] by Nick D. Kim.

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In computational chemistry a chicken wire model or chicken wire surface plot is a way to visualize molecular models by drawing the polygon mesh of their surface (defined e.g. as the van der Waals radius or a certain electron density).{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}

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