An old proverb says that people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. But if you were trapped inside a greenhouse with the temperature building to stifling levels—as some scientists say is happening on Earth—you’d certainly want to break open a window, if you could.
The left side of the diagram shows the traditional method of synthesizing adipic acid, starting with benzene.
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