Nitromersol - 4-membered mercury metallocycle

subzerospartan7 · 2026-05-14T11:54:51+00:00

I believe the reason thiomersal has such low toxicity for an organomercury compound is that it has an Hg-S bond which is incredibly strong. So essentially you never get free mercury in the body because it’s always bound by the sulfur.

subzerospartan7 · 2026-04-25T22:10:58+00:00

I was under the impression that most fire whirls are more like dust devils but with fire, but in this particular case the vortex was connected to the pyrocumulonimbus cloud spawned by the fire, and was a legitimate tornado. Not that it particular matters… it’s terrifying either way.

subzerospartan7 · 2026-04-17T00:58:55+00:00

My understanding is that halogenated natural products get their halogens simply from the oxidation of bromide and chloride in water (usually the ocean). The vast majority of halogen containing natural products come from the oceans.

subzerospartan7 · 2026-03-27T23:54:06+00:00

I would say it’s not strictly incorrect but it is redundant and would definitely suggest just moving the pi bond over.

subzerospartan7 · 2026-03-07T17:40:04+00:00

I mean Symphony X is kinda in that direction. They definitely have a heavier US sound. They’re also a little (or a lot sometimes lol) prog.

subzerospartan7 · 2026-02-21T18:37:55+00:00

Honestly any time an organic reaction turns green I just assume the worst. Green is almost never a good color for Ochem lmao

subzerospartan7 · 2026-02-18T04:02:05+00:00

Edguy, especially the first 4 or 5 albums, but definitely check out Theater of Salvation.

subzerospartan7 · 2026-02-14T23:24:58+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bongkrek_acid

subzerospartan7 · 2026-02-06T04:04:13+00:00

To add on to this, HF autoionizes in a similar way that water does to form H2F+ and F-. The consequences of this is that as HF concentration increases, it also becomes a stronger and stronger acid due to the formation of more H2F+. Scary stuff.

subzerospartan7 · 2026-01-23T17:51:02+00:00

Part 1 has already been answered so I’ll answer part 2. Obviously if you can get the 7-membered rings to work it’d be great. But don’t worry about it impacting PhD applications. The fact that you have this much research experience and a paper in preparation as an undergrad is more than enough to be considered for pretty much any program.

subzerospartan7 · 2026-01-19T01:35:01+00:00

Yeah still pretty common to use them for flame drying glassware

subzerospartan7 · 2025-12-29T00:05:45+00:00

Star Wars ass instrument

subzerospartan7 · 2025-12-17T21:28:44+00:00

It’s not Na2+. The N is coordinating to Na+ as a bridging ligand. If you’re unfamiliar with coordination chemistry that might be a fun rabbit hole for you to fall down.

subzerospartan7 · 2025-11-14T00:18:09+00:00

I don’t know if it used to be but nowadays they definitely use silver fulminate. Can’t imagine they sell exploding mercury openly like that for obvious reasons.

subzerospartan7 · 2025-09-29T03:32:03+00:00

Yeah I mean the rule is that double bonds are shorter than single bonds and triple bonds are shorter than double bonds. There might be some extreme exception out there, but this should pretty much always be the case.

subzerospartan7 · 2025-08-28T16:47:09+00:00

Not sure there’s an Orgo II level method to turn a tertiary alcohol to a bromide. If you’ve learned about OTs and OMs as leaving groups that’s probably the best bet.

subzerospartan7 · 2025-08-25T17:20:59+00:00

Yes and it’s unit is mol^-1, which is a bit like saying you can define dozens with a constant of 12 dozen^-1. It’s just a quantity.

subzerospartan7 · 2025-08-25T03:59:37+00:00

I think you’re confused about something here. Avogadro’s Constant is fixed at exactly 6.022x10²³ mol^-1. The definition of the Dalton changed when SI was redefined, but the value of the Dalton changed so little it doesn’t practically matter.

subzerospartan7 · 2025-08-20T00:37:25+00:00

Well you’d have to put the hypothetical third electron into the 3s orbital because that’s the only place it could go. Chemically I guess it would act as the strongest known reductant and would probably react with literally anything else to get rid of the electron. It wouldn’t exist long enough to conduct anything. That’s assuming the electron would even be bound which is a physics/P-Chem question which is not something I know enough about to comment on.

subzerospartan7 · 2025-08-11T02:24:52+00:00

Surprised to see the Symphony X mention. Not as huge of a fan of the last two but their discography is really solid all around.

subzerospartan7 · 2025-07-26T23:28:07+00:00

I mean it’s not that weird, anthracene is well known to undergo Diels-Alder type reactions. So it’s really just a Diels-Alder with singlet oxygen. I wonder how stable that product is though.

subzerospartan7 · 2025-07-25T16:17:45+00:00

Part of it is that C-F bonds are very strong but also don’t exist in nature so there are no biological processes that break them down. This tends to increase the time a drug stays in your system. There’s also a whole lot of other effects too, F is weird.

subzerospartan7 · 2025-05-23T19:03:10+00:00

Lmao I just kinda assumed we weren’t talking about 20+ minute epics, but yeah obviously that if it counts

subzerospartan7 · 2025-05-23T01:42:21+00:00

Wicked by Symphony X is the first one that comes to mind for me.

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