Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

@KaylinEvergreen there's always a third way you know ;=3

"are there any good FOSS android apps" shit of course not

yeah, I know, famous last words. this stuff is difficult!

ok realized my bio was kinda out of date and fixed it

think now with Chara (and Azzy and Frisk) firmly bonded, we're probably basically where we're gonna be, as a #pluralgang

@zx3 @mawr wow "frog blast the vent core" is a frog blast from the past

@mawr oh heck it's "cron-" not "con-"

uh

ok, it's when a group of FPS players blows themselves up at regular intervals determined by a timer

@mawr that's when a whole group of players in an FPS accidentally blows themselves up (i.e. frags themselves)

well that's neat I guess! I'll try to remember this, if I ever have to make oxazoles...which seems a bit unlikely

in this particular _Organic Syntheses_ reaction, though, the 1,3-dipole is a strange beast indeed, an amide of N-aminopyridine, obtained by amidation of N-aminopyridinium iodide with the methyl ester of N-t-butoxycarbonylglycine. sticking a pyridinium group onto the amide nitrogen unbalances the usual charge distribution in the amide group and converts it to a 1,3-dipole, it would seem!

the "dipolarophile" is an unsymmetrical alkyne here. cycloaddition yields a substituted oxazole

in this class of reaction, a "dipolarophile", usually an asymmetrical alkene or alkyne, i.e. one with an electron-donating group on one side of the multiple bond and an electron-withdrawing group on the other side, reacts with a "1,3-dipole", a molecule that has a chain of three atoms and a definite difference in positive-negative polarity between the ends of the chain. to pick a very commonplace example, the so-called "click" reaction, the 1,3-dipole is an organic azide, R-N=N⁺=N⁻

ok didn't do my usual stuff yesterday. well, I'll do it right now

first, _Organic Synthesis_ roulette. and the word of the day to plug into the orgsyn.org search box is..."powder"

aw jeez it's a strange one

http://orgsyn.org/demo.aspx?prep=v95p0112

another "2+3 dipolar cycloaddition". this is a large class of chemical reactions, of particular use in synthesis of five-membered heterocycles

@Anarkat oh hahaha! well, I suppose there's that touch of forbidden knowledge to this stuff, even though it's all just off a publicly readable website. _Organic Syntheses_ goes back many decades and it's a great resource

@pianosmasher bet you dollars to donuts that he talks about how his three weeks at the Kroger or whatever proves that he knows what it's like to struggle

let's continue I guess

https://www.parallaxcomic.com/comic/page-06

not much goes on here. Paul Rodgers' physics-teaching cousin here acknowledges Lomax, Lomax is mortified of course and calls Rodgers an asshole (well, I mean, he IS a white physics teacher, I'd call that playing the odds), and then goes on with the lecture

Lomax tries to sneak out at the end (not smart enough to hide in the crowd huh kid) but gets hit with "talk to me before you leave". dun dun DUN!

@maple suspect that air-oxidation of material that's been in less protected parts of the apparatus makes it untrustworthy. just speculation based on the fact that estradiol has a phenol ring in it, and that's susceptible to free-radical reactions