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Derek Lowe's Things I Won't Work With (Index)
- noyesno 3y agoSome past discussions: Azidoazide Azides, More or Less - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32608725 Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29775910 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5546450 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1148425 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11282788 Things I Won’t Work With: Peroxide Peroxides (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12228957 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8440486 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9021919 Things I Won't Work With: Thioacetone (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34935339 Things I Won’t Work With: Dimethylcadmium (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10789750 Things I Won't Work With: Chlorine Azide - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2268402
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- astrange 3y agoA few science YouTubers have made the terrible smelling thioacetone and isonitrile/isocyanide now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_wboFJZBTU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_wboFJZBTU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M7V7JRVWno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M7V7JRVWno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=031vrZAMEHU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=031vrZAMEHU - bonus selenoacetone NileRed, who's better known, made thioacetone as well, but ironically he's done enough chemistry that his nose doesn't work anymore so it didn't have an impact.
- hyperman1 3y agoFrom the comments of the Max Gergel one. I think my reading list just got longer: ... equally worth a read. This habit of publishing personal memoirs has a long and honorable history in chemistry. One need only consider E. Emmett Reid (My First Hundred Years in Chemistry) or Louis Fieser (The Scientific Method). Fieser's book was removed (and presumably destroyed) by most libraries in the late sixties because of its comprehensive description of the construction of some very loud devices. And of course, the grand effort that started it all, the Berichte der Durstigen Chemischen Gesellschaft, a special edition of Berichte published when August Kekule himself was Vorsitzer. I could locate only two existing copies, about 50 years ago. ...
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