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It's obviously some superpower - you got yourself on such a immense level of understanding of the organic chemistry that you subconsciously gained the ability to alter your own brain chemistry, and synthesized yourself a hallucinogen. That, or your body was trying to kill itself. I just got off a 2-day bender (midterm yesterday) where I had like six hours of sleep total, and I never want to see a Ketone or an Aldehyde mechanism ever again. (Except for Wittig reactions, that shit is cool.) | ||
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Plutonium
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I did kick ass on my midterm though! Remember that small detail about methyl alpha carbons off of a ketone reacting with base and excess dihalogens? It totally came up, and I'm not even going to tell you what it does so you're going to go crazy unless you look it up. What school are you at? | ||
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What happens is that the methyl carbon actually leaves, and you get a deprotinated carboxylic acid (RCOO-) and a a tri-halogenated methyl ion, something like Na+CBr3- if the dihalogen is Br2. Edit: What you're thinking of is just dihalogen in base. I'm talking excess dihalogen in base, and there is a difference. | ||
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Edit: Well, now you know it. Malonic esters will come up definitely too! Know the mechanism? It's a tricky little fucker, and you should at least know the general reaction. | ||
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Find the chem majors. Where are you going anyways? Right now I'm trying to remember what the synthesis problem I got was. All I remember was that it was really easy. | ||
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Plutonium
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All the Pre-med and Bio guys are just memorization hacks, they couldn't do a creative synthesis to save their lives. | ||
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