Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

CS₂ is poisonous, volatile, extremely flammable, and unavoidable impurities in it make it reek. thumbs down

the reagent is N-trifluoromethylthiosaccharin. saccharin is the cyclic imide of o-sulfobenzoic acid and that imide nitrogen is highly acidic. so saccharin is a good leaving group (cf. the similar compound phthalimide) and so this CF₃S- compound is good for achieving electrophilic trifluoromethylthiolation of a number of substrates (electron-rich aromatics, the alpha position of ketones, etc.)

eh, pretty special purpose, but neat. synthesis is kinda ugly (uses carbon disulfide. ew!)

ok, time for another _Organic Synthesis_ roulette

the word of the day: "smell" (really)

http://orgsyn.org/demo.aspx?prep=v94p0217

ok this is a somewhat fascinating but niche one. this article describes synthesis of a reagent for putting _trifluoromethylthio_ groups on things, so that's CF₃S-

not a group you see every day, but it's apparently useful in drug synthesis and other things where lipophilicity, i.e. a fondness for dissolving in fats, is important in a chemical compound

@gaditb ohhhh ok

that was really gross of them

@Nine wish Thor would get his ass in gear and send some thunder here to Seattle

@gaditb that's probably where Wikipedia is at its strongest, keeping up with a current thing. but it's kinda garbage as a general reference and the standard of technical writing especially is real poor

kinda feel like being there did what it needed to do anyway. it's time to move on

hey @chara_dreemurr@plural.cafe

*hugs*

sorry about that business. sorry you ended up run off the instance by someone without any courage or interest in the truth

@gaditb eh speaking as a chemist I think Wikipedia is kind of a disaster

@melody a whole bunch of eggs? yeah that checks out

@gaditb the sheer number of Wikipedia geeks (I hate to say "editors" because that implies some professionalism) who must get a visceral thrill out of deadnaming people on the very first line of a Wikipedia article must be in the tens of thousands at least

*geek types in "real name [deadname]" into the editing box and then collapses limply, lighting a cigarette, satisfied for another day

@mawr Kara's in a similar position now that she's fused with Chara, who is most emphatically "they". they've kinda accepted that they've gone by "she" so long (and our plurality kinda skews "she" anyway) that we'll probably just answer to "she" and only interject correction from time to time

🔴 call me "he" though and I'll--

🌐 you'll WHAT, Chara 😑

🔴 --I'll be good! hehe

@qubeslayer@cybre.space which one? (mind you I find the character fundamentally unimpressive, sorry folks)

@chara_dreemurr@plural.cafe good luck, Chara

teach's name is "Dan Rodgers", which is about as boring and white as a name gets. maybe he's related to Paul Rodgers

(puts some Bad Company on)

gawd I HATE being "introduced to the class". I'm with Chara in a way, classmates aren't my friends and I don't feel like I need to talk to 'em except in my own sweet time, don't need my teachers trying to push us together into groups and shit

"Lomax Torchstone", there's a name that piles on the semiotic coding huh? "lo" + "max", and then "torchstone" is kind of a giveaway

anyway Lomax's teacher does that really shitty thing that teachers like to do, which is turn a small disruption like entering a class a few minutes late into a much bigger disruption by calling it out

🔴 hey that's why I'd never go into class if I was late. I was sparing the other kids!

yeah right Chara