/cg/ - Chemistry General: Picture for Ants Edition

[Anonymous No.8470245]

Primarily for the purpose of discussing chemistry, asking chemistry related questions and showing off chemistry related pictures, videos or academic accomplishments.

[Anonymous No.8470254]

>>8470245
shit, I wish I had anything to discuss, or ask... or show off atm
here, have an anime girl

[Anonymous No.8470262]

>>8470254
>shit, I wish I had anything to discuss, or ask... or show off atm
h-haha

[Anonymous No.8470277]

>>8470262
I dunno, I have written a paper on hydrolysis of ortho-alkylderivatives of aryl sulfochlorides
basically, frontal nucleophilic attack, provided sufficient water is present

disregard the disgusting visuale, pls

[Anonymous No.8470285]

>>8470277
also, large alkyl group can fucking bend the benzene ring (c. - tBu-substitued)

[Anonymous No.8470288]

>>8470285
optimized transitional states that I managed to find somewhere

[Anonymous No.8470305]

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polypropylene#Degradation
>Oxidation usually occurs at the tertiary carbon atom present in every repeat unit. A free radical is formed here, and then reacts further with oxygen, followed by chain scission to yield aldehydes and carboxylic acids.
Let's overdo the oxidation bit and mess around with some peroxide cleavage to see if we can create some mechanism for this. There isn't any mechanism I was able to find online, which means nobody can cheat.

[Anonymous No.8470326]

>>8470305
oxidation mechanism for an alkane?
ridiculous

[Anonymous No.8470333]

>>8470326
Dont question polymer magic

[Anonymous No.8470582]

>>8470277
>>8470285
>>8470288

This is really nice, anon. Link?

[Anonymous No.8470589]

>>8470245
must you use those stupid anime pictures

[Anonymous No.8470592]

>>8470582
it's not in english, though

[Anonymous No.8471177]

>>8470589
ya

[Anonymous No.8471367]

Can someone explain Hartree-Fock-Approximation as if i was an idiot which i am?

[Anonymous No.8471372]

Is chemistry engineering relevant?

[Anonymous No.8471434]

any other field that connects biology and chemistry besides biochemistry?

[Anonymous No.8471435]

>>8471434
molecular boilogy

[Anonymous No.8471437]

>>8471434
>>8471435
lel, don't forget 'chemical biology'

[Anonymous No.8471439]

>>8471435
>>8471437
which one would you say gets you closer to a job in the pharmaceutical industry?

[Anonymous No.8471445]

>>8471439
none of above
medicinal chemistry

[Anonymous No.8471448]

>>8471439
The people best positioned to answer that are the current hiring managers, HR shits and recruiters.

In 2006 I was present when Prof. Jeff Long literally promised several dozen first year grad students (at Cal) that the department had 'deep ties to industry' and could 'guarantee that 2/3rds of the incoming class would get industry jobs immediately upon graduating'. (With the other 1/3 going to academia.)

It was total bullshit, when those students graduated 5 years later the job market had collapsed and there were essentially no positions available.

If faculty at one of the best ranked chemistry departments in the country can't deliver, why expect 4chan to have the inside track?

[Anonymous No.8471451]

>>8471448
>why expect 4chan to have the inside track?
because I like to think that amidst the sea of shitposting, there's a few souls who know what they're talking about

a man can hope

[Anonymous No.8471458]

>>8471451
check out chemjobber
>How bad is it? How the heck should I know? Quantifying the chemistry job market is what this blog is about. That, and helping chemists find jobs.

(i don't want to put the full link b/c in the past the url has been in the banned list, a simple google search will turn it up immediately)

skip the bullshit (currently there are US pres election posts up, not something that I would have expected from reading the site years ago)
but there's still relevant content

best of luck

[Anonymous No.8471465]

>>8471458
thanks, bud