(some of us have barely clawed ourselves from the lab and still embrace the meaning)
@chenille yes Zusammen and Entgegen are more general (more precisely defined) than cis- and trans-. for instance when the priority of which group is ‘bigger’ becomes difficult to assign. but yes, even crusty old organic chemists (which i’m not really) get the analogy between gender choice and the older stereochemical sense [wink]
