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Steelflight-Rx United States1389 Posts May 01 2008 04:13 GMT #1 I studied for 8 hours straight. At around hour 7 I started feeling, for lack of better term, high. I got dazed and started to feel like i was being lifted out of my body. The high still hasn't worn off. Does anyone else ever get like this?

Plutonium United States2217 Posts May 01 2008 04:14 GMT #2 What were you studying exactly?

Steelflight-Rx United States1389 Posts May 01 2008 04:18 GMT #3 o chem, that shits fucking wild

Plutonium United States2217 Posts May 01 2008 04:27 GMT #4 I know the feeling exactly. 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.)

Steelflight-Rx United States1389 Posts May 01 2008 04:28 GMT #5 fuck i got a drug test in 2 days =(

MoNKeYSpanKeR United States2869 Posts May 01 2008 04:30 GMT #6 haha you are fucked, drink lots of water. But you read the book, you know that. Actually fuck it just change your body chemistry and win life. +passdrugtestezpzlemonsqueezy

Plutonium United States2217 Posts May 01 2008 04:35 GMT #7 Whoo Enols and Enolates! 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?

Steelflight-Rx United States1389 Posts May 01 2008 04:38 GMT #8 Lol, we saw that on the practice exam, but none of us could find it in the book. Maybe it is important ill go look for it again now o.o;

Steelflight-Rx United States1389 Posts May 01 2008 04:41 GMT #9 nvm found it that just substitutes all the H on the alpha carbon with X (x=halide)

Steelflight-Rx United States1389 Posts May 01 2008 04:42 GMT #10 Gimme something hard

Plutonium United States2217 Posts May 01 2008 04:43 GMT #11 It will totally come up - It did on mine, and because I know I got it right it will ruin the curve for others! 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.

Steelflight-Rx United States1389 Posts May 01 2008 04:47 GMT #12 Yeah thats the haloformation!

Plutonium United States2217 Posts May 01 2008 04:47 GMT #13 Check out Haloform reactions. 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.

Steelflight-Rx United States1389 Posts May 01 2008 04:51 GMT #14 Do you mean fisher esterification? We didn't study malonic esters

Plutonium United States2217 Posts May 01 2008 04:52 GMT #15 Well, different curriculum's. How about protecting groups?

Steelflight-Rx United States1389 Posts May 01 2008 04:52 GMT #16 Yeah probly, man i wish i went to school with u the kids i study ochem with are dumbasses ;P

Plutonium United States2217 Posts May 01 2008 04:55 GMT #17 You're just studying with the idiot pre-med or bio majors :D 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.

Steelflight-Rx United States1389 Posts May 01 2008 04:57 GMT #18 Wow you called it. Unfortunately theres not that many straight chemistry majors here. I'm at a small liberal arts school you probably havent heard of, where are you?

Plutonium United States2217 Posts May 01 2008 04:58 GMT #19 Oh yeah, I remember it now. I'll post it in paint for you. I'm at UC Irvine. All the Pre-med and Bio guys are just memorization hacks, they couldn't do a creative synthesis to save their lives.

ShaLLoW[baY] Canada12499 Posts May 01 2008 04:59 GMT #20 In my Chemistry class, we've deduced that bases have a pH > 7 and that acid rain is acidic. Woo~

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