{"id":180,"date":"2012-11-27T16:18:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T16:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nextmovesoftware.com\/blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2015-06-22T17:04:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:04:22","slug":"building-and-climbing-a-chemical-ladder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextmovesoftware.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/27\/building-and-climbing-a-chemical-ladder\/","title":{"rendered":"Building and climbing a Chemical Ladder"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent post by Jake Vanderplas<\/a> described Word Ladders, and gave me an idea. A Word Ladder<\/a> is a game developed by Lewis Carroll that involves converting one word into another one letter at a time, while passing through only valid words. For example, to convert MAD into HAT, a valid word ladder would be MAD->MAT->HAT or MAD->HAD->HAT.<\/p>\n

Here I propose the term Chemical Ladder for a Word Ladder that is restricted to chemical names. For example, try converting from Barbamate to Carbazide in 4 steps only using valid chemical names. Or from Anginine to Arsonite.<\/p>\n