Personal motives for

My personal motivation for preparing this account comforms with the long tradition of scientists who wrote the history of their particular sciences for the educational benefit of their students. The history of a science was early offered in science textbooks with the thought that historical knowledge of the development of scientific ideas would give the student a deeper understanding of the science itself... 

It is appropriate at this point to indicate our personal motivation for carrying out structural studies, the types of compounds we study, and the experimental conditions we employ. In a very general sense we are interested in the bonding of small molecules and ions, e.g., 02, N2, NO, N2 R+, olefins, and acetylenes, to transition-metal complexes. Because of our interest in bonding, we seek the best solutions we can attain. Rapid, qualitative answers to conformational problems are not our interest. Since those transition-metal systems that bind small molecules generally have the metal in a low oxidation state, and since a low oxidation state is usually stabilized by ligands of the type PR3 (R = alkyl or aryl), solution to our problems involves typically the determination of a large number of structural parameters. With only a few exceptions the intensity data are obtained at room temperature on a Picker FACS-1 computer-controlled diffractometer. Usually the ratio of observations to variables is at least 10, and it is often 20 to 30. 

My greatest personal motivation for putting emotion into the games I design and write isn t any of these nine reasons. I add emotion because, as an artist, it s what I do. 

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