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Was this in the articles??? No nitro groups on the molecule and benzene is extremely stable due to its resonance. Where did you get this info?? Just curious.
by tfmatt 9y ago
Was this in the articles??? No nitro groups on the molecule and benzene is extremely stable due to its resonance. Where did you get this info?? Just curious.
- thereisnospork 9y agoIt won't exactly explode, but it will strip a proton off of pretty much anything. It is undoubtedly reactive with water, pretty much any 'interesting' organic compound, and probably even methane. The thing is so sensitive (being a superbase it by definition has a massive propensity for stealing protons) they had to make it in the gas phase by pelting it with negative ions/electrons at high energy. So there is no use/will be no direct use because A. It is so reactive that it can't be in contact with pretty much anything else w/o reacting and B. there is no way to make it in any meaningful quanity - even micrograms would be exceedingly difficult. There might be some interesting theoretical/computational implications, but that's not my field of expertise. (and it seems to be claimed by pretty much every paper regardless)