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Lowe is being funny and calling back to his classic "Things I won't work with" series (which is also linked to in a different comment). One of the things you l

Lowe is being funny and calling back to his classic "Things I won't work with" series (which is also linked to in a different comment). One of the things you learn just from that series is that anything with this much fluorine jammed into it is just asking for trouble. Case in point, https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-dioxygen-difluoride https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...

UncleSlacky 4y ago
See also "Ignition!": http://www.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf http://www.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf
- daniel-cussen 4y ago
  Am reading it upon your recommendation!
- hulahoof 4y ago
  Ignition! is one of my all time favourite reads, that I picked up from a previous comment similar to this - highly recommend if it piques the interest of any passer bys
paulmd 4y ago
Azidoazole Azide is another classic from the "take a nasty little functional group and build a whole molecule out of them" family. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-azidoazide-azides-more-or-less https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor... Fulminates and Azides are known for their physical sensitivity, they're the primary explosive used for the primers in gun cartridges. Azides are generally more sensitive than fulminates - mercury fulminate is an older primer compound where mercury azides are quite unstable and reactive. Azidoazole Azide is basically an azide group bonded to an azole ring... azole is like pentane except with a nitrogen ring. So basically just one giant pile of nitrogen bonds looking for a reason to un-bond. See also, Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane, although the name isn't nearly as suggestive, but that's a nice little molecular diagram right there too lol. "Thrillingly nitrogenated", would probably be the description. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
- dralley 4y ago
  The Explosions and Fire channel synthesized it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sz4d7RQB6Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sz4d7RQB6Y
- naniwaduni 4y ago
  > See also, Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane, although the name isn't nearly as suggestive, I don't know, hexa-nitro hexa-aza is one hell of a lede.
astrange 4y ago
I still want to know what isocyanide smells like. The "it smells bad" articles just say things smell bad but not exactly how. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-small-smelly-isocyanides https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor... https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-thioacetone https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor... https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-selenophenol https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...

UncleSlacky 4y ago

See also "Ignition!": http://www.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf http://www.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf

daniel-cussen 4y ago
Am reading it upon your recommendation!
hulahoof 4y ago
Ignition! is one of my all time favourite reads, that I picked up from a previous comment similar to this - highly recommend if it piques the interest of any passer bys

paulmd 4y ago

Azidoazole Azide is another classic from the "take a nasty little functional group and build a whole molecule out of them" family. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-azidoazide-azides-more-or-less https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor... Fulminates and Azides are known for their physical sensitivity, they're the primary explosive used for the primers in gun cartridges. Azides are generally more sensitive than fulminates - mercury fulminate is an older primer compound where mercury azides are quite unstable and reactive. Azidoazole Azide is basically an azide group bonded to an azole ring... azole is like pentane except with a nitrogen ring. So basically just one giant pile of nitrogen bonds looking for a reason to un-bond. See also, Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane, although the name isn't nearly as suggestive, but that's a nice little molecular diagram right there too lol. "Thrillingly nitrogenated", would probably be the description. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...

dralley 4y ago
The Explosions and Fire channel synthesized it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sz4d7RQB6Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sz4d7RQB6Y
naniwaduni 4y ago
> See also, Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane, although the name isn't nearly as suggestive, I don't know, hexa-nitro hexa-aza is one hell of a lede.

astrange 4y ago

I still want to know what isocyanide smells like. The "it smells bad" articles just say things smell bad but not exactly how. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-small-smelly-isocyanides https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor... https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-thioacetone https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor... https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-selenophenol https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...