O.p. Agarwal: Organic Chemistry Reactions And Reagents By

In the dim, dusty corner of the university library, between Advanced Physical Chemistry (which no one had touched since 1987) and a forgotten copy of Quantum Mechanics for Poets , sat .

He fell asleep face-down on the book, cheek pressed against the mechanism of . Organic Chemistry Reactions And Reagents By O.p. Agarwal

But the true magic was in the Reagents section. O.P. didn't list them; he gave them personalities. In the dim, dusty corner of the university

He saw a journey. An alcohol walking bravely toward a chromic acid gatekeeper, losing two hydrogens, gaining a double bond to oxygen, and emerging as an aldehyde—dizzy, but transformed. In the dim

Rohan woke at dawn. The library was cold. But for the first time, when he looked at a reaction—say, —he didn't see a formula.