03 Jan 2009, 7:49 am
This type of discussion started in the multiverse thread but I suspect that it should have a thread of its own.
Are any of the wrong planet residents molecule connoisseurs, if you a molecule connoisseur then please name you favourite molecule or polymeric material. If possible post a picture and say why you like the substance.
I have trouble choosing a favourite because I know so many nice molecules.
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03 Jan 2009, 4:08 pm
Agreed on that, the only one that's ever stuck out to me involves a combination of the two subjects I "specialized" in while obtaining my ChE degree (polymers and microelectronics/processes): SU-8 Photoresist.
Wikipedia article on SU-8.
And an image of the polymer chain:
Last I heard it costs more per ounce than gold.
03 Jan 2009, 9:00 pm
The place I worked at once had DEA agents working there. One of them handed me a box about 6" cube, and asked me how much I thought it was worth. I said 'I dunno, about a hundred dollars'...he said it was worth a quarter million...and I handed it right back...
08 Jan 2009, 9:18 am
08 Jan 2009, 8:29 pm
Cyanocobalamin?
No, I didn't know it off-hand, it just happened to be in my Organometallic Chemistry book.
Admittedly, it would have been easier to just look at the image name.
10 Jan 2009, 2:23 am
Looks like the cyano form of vitamin B12, I just knew that from looking at it. I think that a nicer version exists.
Mix cobalt chloride, alcohol, dimethyl glyoxime and pyridine and bubble nitrogen through it. Then add sodium borohydride and then an alkyl halide. This will make a small molecule model of Vit B12.
I like this one more because the part of the molecule which does the interesting bit is not swamped out by the side groups.
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Health is a state of physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
I am not a jigsaw, I am a free man ! Diagnosed under the DSM5 rules with autism spectrum disorder, under DSM4 psychologist said would have been AS (299.80) but I suspect that I am somewhere between 299.80 and 299.00 (Autism) under DSM4.
10 Jan 2009, 4:12 am
For a reference for the B12 model see
L.G. Marzilli et al, Journal of the American Chemical Soc, 1979, volume 101, page 6754.
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Health is a state of physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
I am not a jigsaw, I am a free man ! Diagnosed under the DSM5 rules with autism spectrum disorder, under DSM4 psychologist said would have been AS (299.80) but I suspect that I am somewhere between 299.80 and 299.00 (Autism) under DSM4.
