Ambergris

just two. TNP likes Regina Spektor

Regina Spektor - Us :heart:

False TNP is scared of riding horses

I had like three sandwiches and a can of wheat soda (malta)... I feel like a pig. :blank:

please go away stupid cough. :nice:

Miike Snow - Cult Logic

yesterday I had one of the happiest days ever in my life.

I'm oficially a chemist... a graduated chemist. Hohoho...

I wouldn't say she's not talented... she makes good stories, right? but for me she's not a good writer, nor writes about anything reelevant to our society, except for emo kids who want to scape to their reality and ultimately marry Harry or Hermione and live in Hogwarts forever. :wacky:

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very... I wonder why J. K. Rowling hasn't got one. :uhoh2:

but the article is friendlier to read, I guess my chemical reaction-mechanistical images complicate everything. :inquisitive: :P

:stunned: congratulations! he's been waiting it for so long... One more Nobel prize for Latin america. :)

Maye your own thread. :P

Okay, I'll try my best to explain it here... But I think the contribution is quite well explained on the link I posted :P Why are these carbon coupling reactions so important? because in chemistry carbon carbon bonds are the essence of almost everything! the main problem, though is that's not easy to form/break (energetically speaking) them since they're very stable and not really reactive (mean bond enthalpies 348-837 kJ/mol, ranging from alkanes to alkines). So in chemistry... we don't have many chemical reactions that form carbon-carbon bonds and those that we have, we appreciate much. ;) For example we have Grignard reaction and the use of lithium reagents... but they involve highly reactive species and therefore they are not really that selective, are likely to give off unwanted byproducts... The discovery of the carbon-carbon coupling reactions involving palladium opened up a big sky of possibilities in synthetic chemistry (for the new drugs we need to combat more resistant diseases, the new materials to improve or everyday life) because of it's high selectivity and versatility: Here's the Heck coupling reaction: It looks simple, but it hides a more complicated mechanism:

heavy metals wastes... :stunned:

^ wow, you already gave birth to your baby. Congratulations! :D

Regina Spektor - Samson

please vote this for nerdiest thread ever...

It makes me so happy... I've been working for more than a year with this reaction, I even used it for my bachelor thesis... so it feels really exciting, it's an amazing chemical reaction. :dance:

Nobel prize for chemistry awarded for new way to build useful molecules Three scientists share the Nobel prize for chemistry after developing a technique for assembling chains of carbon atoms to make novel drugs, agrochemicals and electronic coatings. "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis". http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/oct/06/nobel-prize-chemistry CONGRATULATIONS!!! :D

HOLY CRAPFJDKLFASDLKFM LSDÑGSG :freak::freak::freak: NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY... RICHARD HECK!!! AND AKIRA SUZUKI AND EI-ICHI NEGISHI... FOR THE HECK REACTION!!!! :dance::dance::dance: :D

I'm so paranoic... it still amazes me that some people like me. :uhoh:

better have a productive day today. :veryangry:

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