Я хочу проапдейтить пост про ДГМ, но ни один из нейронов сейчас не в состоянии взяться за этот черный и неблагодарный труд. Но хочу поддержать мой зимний, кажется, тренд по посту в день хотя бы в течение недели. Так что придется потерпеть.

Старый хороший флешмоб из черновиков:
My Favorite Things about Chemistry
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Самые любимые абстракты из Journal of Unpublished Chemistry. Пусть повисит для поднятия настроения. :)

The total synthesis of triethyl ammonium hydrobromide from expensive, difficult to prepare starting materials.
Triethyl ammonium hydrobromide was synthesised in excellent yield from N-tertbutyldimethylsilanyl-4-bromo azetidinone in a single step
Experimental details:

To a stirred, -78°C, 0.2M solution of N-tertbutyldimethylsilanyl-4-bromo azetidinone in THF (0.5g, 1.894mM in 10ml), was added triethylamine (0.26ml, 1.894mM). Thioacetic acid (0.14g, 1.894mM) was added dropwise over 20 minutes forming a pale yellow solution, before the reaction mixture was allowed to warm to ambient temperature over 2 hours and the solvent removed by reduced pressure rotary evaporation. Ice cold diethyl ether (25ml) was added with trituration causing precipitation of the product as pale yellow crystals (0.32g, 93%, mp: 181-183°C).

"Never Start a Column After 4 pm": Superstition or Sense?
The efficacy of silica chromatography in the late afternoon was investigated on all five weekdays, and Saturday.

Synthesis of Coal From Vitamin B12.
CCS

Total Synthesis of Vitamin B12 From Coal.
An extensive study in futility as your supervisor wouldn't buy you that oh-so important starting material.
Dr R. UK

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