Derek Lowe's Things I Won't Work With (Index)

https://www.science.org/topic/blog-category/things-i-wont-work-with

by metaphor • 2 years ago

22 4 2 years ago

noyesno• 2 years ago

Some 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

astrange• 2 years ago

A 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=2M7V7JRVWno

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• 2 years ago

From 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. ...

082349872349872• 2 years ago

\o/ https://archive.org/details/BerichteDerDurstigenChemischenGe...

Derek Lowe's Things I Won't Work With (Index)

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