/sci/ - Science & Math

Chemical formula of lulz please.

ummm let me see, what is blood plasma?

>>1559475
it's not a big truck

Well, lulz could be described as butanethiol released inside your local highschool.

o-chem, i keep hearin bio and chem fags bitching about how hard it is but how hard is it really? comapred to things like 1st semester calculus assuming you took it?

Curcumin up in this motherfucker

What would be an appropriate place to start for a total synthesis of the molecule shown? I'm thinking anthracene. No cheating and looking on scifinder.

what sort of jobs do you get as a biochemist

not OP
>>1559506
organic=\=bio
troll much?
>>1559499
any real chemist would have to. It's part of an ACS certified degree.

>>1559499

It's not that hard. It's just a new way of thinking and people are too stubborn to get the fuck off of flash cards and rote memorization.
>>1559501
Nasty looking molecule, even if it's in a common spice. Not one I'd want to put into my body.
>>1559502
Photodimer of anthracene-9-bromoacetate. I'd start with anthracene and do friedel-crafts acylation with acetyl chloride and aluminum chloride, then probably some sort of radical NBS bromination...would have to be careful with that...but...then i'd zap the thing with some short wavelength UV light.

>>1559506
I'm not a biochemist.

>>1559526
>>1559526
err sorry i meant organic.

>>1559502
>>1559522

Op here. Correction, perhaps a deprotonation at the enolizable center with LDS or LHDMS in THF and then treatment with exactly one equivalent of elemental bromine...should be more reactive than the relatively de-activated 10-position.

>>1559531

Well, there's of course professorship.

As far as industry -

Pharma and Materials are your biggest options.

>>1559446

What kinds of stuff have you worked on, research-wise?

Feel free to be technical, I'm a chemfag too. Biochem, but chem nonetheless.

>>1559522
Obviously the 9 position will substitute first. Deactivation by the electronwithdrawing effect of the carbonyl to slow a second addition. Just mind your reaction time. I approve of this synthesis.

>>1559539
Fuck, i meant LDA or LHMDS

That's lithium diisopropyl amide or lithium hexamethyl disilazide.

>>1559545
lol
biofag thinks he's a chemist

>>1559545

Conjugated polymers (lol, CP)
Dye chemistry (seminaphthofluoresceins and substituted rhodamines)
Ratiometric fluorescent sensors or carbohydrates and nitric oxide
>>1559556
Anthracene does some wierd shit when you try to brominate with substituents on it....I found out the hard way. But yes, hence the advantage of acylation, gotta love the deactivated product. However, I was referring to the tendency of the middle of the anthracene system getting brominated as well, since it behaves more like an alkene and is very electron poor.

Shit we burn = fossil fuel, oil, gasoline, coal, petroleum, methane, wood, cow shit etc etc

most made of carbon

organic = involves carbon

human = made of carbon

does this mean dried human = good fuel to burn?????

>>1559573
>>1559573
err..electron rich...

>>1559563

I do far more chemistry than I do biology. Plenty of O-Chem syntheses. Lrn2interdisciplinary science.

>>1559590
Gives you some advantages in the job market.

>>1559577
They used to burn mummies in fireplaces so yes.
>>1559590
Perhaps you are the exception that proves the rule, but every 'biochemist' I've ever run into was a sub par chemist. They are often as likely to blow a hole in the wall as get usable data in my experience.

Keep em coming, fags.

SCIENCE! IN MY /SCI/!
I DON'T THINK SO!

>>1559644
I lol'd

Why did Woodward steal the Corey rules?

>>1559683
An informed troll appears.

why is it hard to find a job with just a BS in chem?

>>1559751
Because a job that a BS in chemistry can do, anyone with any science background can do...go to grad school...at least you get paid there...

>>1559468
anon delivars

worth it to go for a Phd? or is a master's just fine? why did you get into organic chem and not a different type of chem? what exactly do you do for a career?

>>1559719
Can I use my pokeball on it?

>>1559577
Everything we burn is made of carbon...

IMPORTANT QUESTION:
HOW DO YOU MAKE TERNARY OXIDES (LiCoO2)???