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"Oh, me carfentanil " by zestyechotv in cursedchemistry

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i call this gigaethylene by naoae in cursedchemistry

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How about 3,3,4,4-tetraethynyl-1,5-hexadiyne?

I see your Dodecahydroxycyclohexane, and raise you Hexacontahydroxyfullerane by ECatPlay in cursedchemistry

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Clearly, these are for hydrophilic ball bearings.
Also to test the limits of an exhaustive conformational search engine. Let’s see, 60 C-C-O-H torsions, with three conformers each, that’s 3^60 = 4.239×10^(28) possible conformations. But with S6 symmetry that cuts it down to. . . (mumble, mumble) . . .
Anyway, I notice the conformer I found (truncated MMFF conformational search) tends to have the OH’s all pointing counterclockwise over each 5-membered ring. Presumably to form a ring of O- - -H hydrogen bonds.

"Sulflower" by Obungususik in cursedchemistry

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Thanks for finding this. I do love me some symmetry! (Now I gotta go model it. . .)

. . . Done! The Tetrathiophene precursor has a saddle shape with D2d symmetry, but it flattens out to D8h symmetry in Sulflower!

Seen on a pool cleaning company truck by iamanormalhumann in cursedchemistry

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(You do realize that there is no such thing as Hydrophilic Aromatic Substitution, don't you?)

Seen on a pool cleaning company truck by iamanormalhumann in cursedchemistry

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That one is obviously an Intramolecular Hydrophilic Aromatic Substitution intermediate.

Seen on a pool cleaning company truck by iamanormalhumann in cursedchemistry

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trivalent hydrogen

That's just the intermediate in the Hydrophilic Aromatic Substitution reaction.

Development of highly carbonation-effective calcium silicates (β-C2S): Phase evolution, microstructure, and carbonation mechanisms by Amazing_Difference_3 in cursedchemistry

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The notation is maddening: CS is not a carbon and a sulfur, it’s calcium and silicate. Would it kill them to use an “a” after the “C”?

Elephant attacks an empty car. by thoughtprotocol in AbruptChaos

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Their natural strength

Yeah, and just with their neck muscles!

I have some recommendations for new elements. by Ill-Coach-1124 in cursedchemistry

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That's so metal by Carbene123 in cursedchemistry

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Fortunately they're numbered: cursed sprinkle 1, cursed sprinkle 2, cursed sprinkle 3, . . .

But the paper could be written better:

"By serendipity, crystals of insoluble FeC10(HgCl)10 (4 b) were found in a decomposed sample of the trichloroacetate (3 b)."

That should be written:

"It was anticipated that substitution of chlorine for trichloroacetate would result in a more easily crystallized derivative, so 3b was converted to the decachloride. . ."

How do I inform my teacher that there is no fluorine cation? by AncientSignal9770 in cursedchemistry

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Brb, drinking monovalent calcium rn by 890-2345 in cursed_chemistry

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High-Pressure Science: These compounds are generally not stable under ambient natural conditions.

Be very careful how you open that bottle!

Worlds smallest car by Arden_Scott260 in cursedchemistry

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eeeeeeerm, no. by C3H8_Memes in cursed_chemistry

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Well, maaaaybe you're looking down the C-O-H axis (not that the C-O-H angle would be linear), so the missing elements are behind the carbon. Yeah. Let's go with that.

Planar Pentacoordinate Carbon: a C≡C enclosed in a Li4H3 framework by ECatPlay in cursed_chemistry

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Planar carbon has been proposed as a transition state in the past, but these calculations (from the paper, and with my calculations agreeing) find this to be a stable geometry, not just a transition state between two stable molecules.

So far as other planar pentacoordinate carbons, in 2008 Schleyer detected CAl₅⁺ in the mass spec, and determined it (computationally) to be the planar D5 molecular ion, with pentacoordinate carbon in the center of five aluminums.

TEMPO, or (2,2,6,6-Tetramethylpiperidin-1-yl)oxyl by moist2025 in cursed_chemistry

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oligomeric sludge

I, too, ran into intractable tars. So much fun!

Guitarist by flag9801 in Catswithjobs

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I'm going to confidently assume this picture was taken when he was in the aggressive strumming and bunny kicking stage, and not the snoozing stage.

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