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Somewhat surprisingly, this was NOT filed under "Stuff I Won't Work With"
by microtherion 5y ago
Somewhat surprisingly, this was NOT filed under "Stuff I Won't Work With"
- _Microft 5y agoIf you had told me that the article was by Derek Lowe and that there are a number of nitrogen atoms involved, I would have indeed (wrongly) guessed that it were Things I Won’t Work With, that the compound had been created by the Klapötke group at Munich University and that it would go boom ;) Well, not quite. This time at least.
- wolfgang42 5y agoSounds like it got off on a technicality: > I have personally worked with compounds that are this hazardous, but at least I knew up front that they were!
- fabian2k 5y agoThe stuff in that series is generally much more dangerous or unusual in handling than this one.
- ufmace 5y agoIt sounds like this stuff is only mildly dangerous and easy to keep safe with if you know what you're doing. Considering that it's been used as a chemotherapy drug for years, it'd be surprising if it wasn't. Most of the "Stuff I Won't Work With" is fantastically dangerous even when you know exactly what you're dealing with and take all of the right precautions.
- ashtonkem 5y agoIt seems like the hazardous bit is more the fact that this stuff is extremely toxic.
- andreareina 5y agoHe's a drug discovery chemist so explosiveness notwithstanding it's right up his alley.
- ashtonkem 5y agoHe’s a research pharmaceutical chemist, this particular compound more likely to end up under the category of “things I will have to work with”.
- mnw21cam 5y agoThere's quite a stark difference between "it might go bang if you abuse it" and Chlorine Trifluoride (sand won't save you this time) https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_save_you_this_time https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/sa...