Babylonian confusion—Is the current distinction between a liquid phase and a solution phase in organic synthesis correct and reasonable? A confusion of tongues furnished the end of the construction of the Tower of Babylon (see picture). In order to prevent combinatorial chemistry from this fate, ambiguous terms such as “liquid-phase organic synthesis” have to be abandoned. (The picture was reproduced with kind permission from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.)
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