This paper supports a thesis on control of chemical systems occuring in metabolism which
makes extensive use of energy forms with an indirect or vicarious route to their targets in the
chemicals concerned. In the recent decade or so, quantum chemists in studying the same
problem, control of chemical reactions by indirect routes, not necessarily with a specific bio-
function goal, have produced almost identical protocols known as quantum sculpting of the
chemical wave function in their laboratory experiments. Parallels and modulations of the two …