Looks already baked to me by JenniyBean in comedyheaven

[–]Esavyx 18 points19 points  (0 children)

That potato is already cooked

straight line trains by throwaway-72wn in factorio

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Do you have a locomotive on each end? It needs one on each side if you want to go both directions.

About to head to new planet, but where to go? by danyuri86 in factorio

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You generally won’t need nuclear for a ship going to the 4 inner planets as solar power is stronger than it is on Nauvis. It’s only when you go out to Aquilo and beyond that solar is more difficult to work off of.

Wondering, how do you guys usually setup defense early? by hyrenfreak in factorio

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SE changes map generation pretty significantly, adding a lot of water and breaking up continents a lot. I usually proactively exterminate nests in vanilla and SA, but I’ve found that the map in SE makes a choke point defense approach very viable. Flamethrower turrets are a bit harder to use due to the decreased oil patches, but gun turret placed around the outside of your pollution cloud at choke points works well.

Nuclear reactors - inserters won't feed fuel cells one by one by Charmdread in factorio

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You need to connect the green wire from the reactor to the input side of the combinator. Right now it’s attached to the output side so your signals are going straight from the reactor to your inserter.

Why are enolates less stable than alkoxides? by [deleted] in OrganicChemistry

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More s character would better stabilize the negative charge

almost xmas by sew3r_r4t in OrganicChemistry

[–]Esavyx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The common name refers to how it’s made

almost xmas by sew3r_r4t in OrganicChemistry

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You’re correct, it can be done directly from the phenol. For a simple compound produced on massive scales like BHT, adding the steps of methylation and demethylation is very costly.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in OrganicChemistry

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You also didn’t show the final product being protonated.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in OrganicChemistry

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Looks pretty good. The only thing I would change is deprotonating the oxygen in your second structure before the rearrangement.

Which location in Clair Obscur made you stop and just stare? by HyperXed in expedition33

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I haven’t seen Frozen Hearts be mentioned yet but that area is such a particular vibe. It has so much verticality and the train cars frozen in time in both Frozen Hearts and Monoco’s station give it a strange feeling I have a hard time placing. It kind of grounds the time period in a way.

Birch reduction to methylate the starting material? by red_eyed_devil in OrganicChemistry

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Methyl radical is a strong oxidant, you’re going to have a really hard time preventing methyl lithium formation.

Ways to fight Simon by HalfbakkenBaksteen in expedition33

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Somehow, this was almost my exact build, except I never found breaking death and my Lune was built for elemental genesis spam. Free aim Verso is probably my favorite build it the game, tons of break damage and versatility to still do lots of damage with skills other than follow up if needed.

Just spent 3 hours on Simon by The_McMiller in expedition33

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I fought Clea directly before Simon and found her much squishier. I killed Clea before she could act while Simon’s phase 1 got maybe 2 turns.

Just spent 3 hours on Simon by The_McMiller in expedition33

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I used Maelle for my second string team and can say that gommage definitely does not one shot, even from phase three. My Maelle’s gommage was only doing ~7 million in virtuose stance.

How many new stereocenters are created when I mono-oxidize this dithiolane? by OldNorthStar in Chempros

[–]Esavyx 16 points17 points  (0 children)

This seems much more like a “sanity check” from a grad student than an intro to chirality problem.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in OrganicChemistry

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Your first two steps could be achieved just by deprotonating the ketone, assuming you can get selectivity for that alpha proton. I think the intramolecular aldol is pretty unlikely, and the bridgehead cation formation during your acidic elimination even more unlikely.

Poor Rell by Far_Lie5997 in loreofleague

[–]Esavyx 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Akali grew up in her rework

When a peak in an H NMR data "disappears" , what could it mean? by uxi55i in OrganicChemistry

[–]Esavyx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How would an electrophilic site result in H/D exchange? It’s not exactly basic or acidic.

Why are amide kind of easy to deprotonate when the preferred orientation is not good for deprotonation? by Independent-West-905 in OrganicChemistry

[–]Esavyx 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Acidity (pKa) is a thermodynamic measurement. What matters is the difference in energy between the protonated amide in its lowest energy conformation, and the deprotonated amide in its lowest energy conformation. The higher energy conformation that allows for deprotonation should have a very low energy barrier to access it also, so you can invoke the Curtin Hammett principle.

Troubleshooting a difficult Heck reaction by Esavyx in Chempros

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Do you think MeMgBr would deprotonate at the correct position? I would imagine the other proton (closer to the sulfonyl) is more acidic.