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You've heard of a dehydration reaction, how about a demethanation?

I created this article recently, taking the liberty to name this reaction after its discoverer.

I'll just leave it to y'all to appreciate.

en.wikipedia.org
u/WMe6 — 3 days ago
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Weird beads in my meth

Can someone please tell me why there are little clear sand type pebbles in my meth. And it's not just in the powder. It could literally be a full solid shard and once it melts I have these clear little pebbles in my bubble

u/Individual-Engine312 — 6 days ago
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I had to synthesise this starting from glycerol and it broke me (Phosphorus is a chiral center)

12 step synthesis with a 0.4% yeild. The stereochemistry of the phosphorus depends on the stereochemistry of the glycerol. Its called pseudo asymmetry. I cried for 20 mintues when I got the LCMS

u/VoxInferni666 — 5 days ago
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Don't worry, CH5+ isn't violating any bonding rules. It doesn't have bonds (maybe)

Since CH5+ gets brought up a lot here, I thought Id share this blurb in Modern Physical Organic Chemistry (Anslyn & Dougherty)

CH5+ may not have "bonds" at all, so no bonding rules are violated! Instead it's just a completely delocalized, quantum mechanical cloud of protons and electrons around carbon. Much better :)

u/Dry-Metal-6593 — 13 days ago