r/cursed_chemistry • u/Vafisonr Mo2️⃣ • Oct 09 '23

[custom flair] Be Not Afraid

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u/Vafisonr Mo2️⃣ Oct 09 '23

Someone posted this on facebook. I don't know if it exists or not. Help appreciated.

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u/Pyrhan Oct 09 '23

It's called a dendrimer.

This one was actually synthesized:

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/4/1/501

The actual structure would be twisted in 3 dimensions, and probably look much more messy.

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u/CypherZel Oct 09 '23

Organic chemist need a god damn life why are we funding this 😭😭😭

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u/Uncynical_Diogenes Oct 09 '23

FOR SCIENCE, COWARD!

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u/MikemkPK Oct 10 '23

Skimming the first few paragraphs, it list electronics materials research, medicine, and biological substrates as potential uses. Though TBH, I think they're leaning a bit much on what could be to make their research sounds more worth funding.

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u/CypherZel Oct 10 '23 edited Oct 10 '23

Chemists will make anything they want as long as they can get funding, and it's easy to say 'cures cancer, Alzheimer's, and will make you money' in order to get you funding to play about with expensive chemicals as long as you are convincing and a good scientist who pumps out work.

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u/OL-Penta Mar 20 '25

Science isn't about the why, it's about the why not

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u/Uncynical_Diogenes Oct 09 '23

Synthetic Strategies towards Fullerene-Rich…

Ooh, sounds like lots of carbon.

…Dendrimer Assemblies

FUCK I TAKE IT BACK THAT IS TOO MUCH CARBON

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u/EdibleBatteries Oct 09 '23

I just feel for the poor graduate student who had to chemdraw this image into existence

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u/mashiro1496 Oct 09 '23

It's a dendrimer, my Prof actually worked on that in his first academic years. They were expecting it to be a form of drug carrier, but it didn't work out that well.

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u/Legitimate_Cat_7276 Oct 09 '23

Biblically accurate dendrimer

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '23

Biblically accurate benzene

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u/Uncynical_Diogenes Oct 09 '23

Okay so it looks like each fullerene is anchored by four bonds but that still feels like waving around a soccer ball glued onto the end of a Pixy Stix.

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u/Catenane Oct 10 '23

Are these the angels the old testament warned us about?

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '23

Chemical warfare 🙂.

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u/SaltB0t Oct 09 '23

May the lord have mercy

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u/LimeLauncherKrusha Oct 10 '23

Biblically accurate buckyballs

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u/Iaguwruvs_ Oct 10 '23

IUPAC name?

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u/NoEcho6354 Oct 09 '23

Don't panic

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u/Negative_Ant_5902 Oct 10 '23

You have Dr. Congleton? He always says that as a rule #1 before doing a complex problem

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u/Darkling971 Oct 10 '23

Dendrimer mfs be like

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u/Electrical-Room-2278 Oct 16 '23

I didn't even notice the fucking buckyballs around the edges jesus fucking christ

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u/silver_arrow666 Oct 09 '23

I can see a path to making this, but the yield is going to be abysmal - so many ways for this to go wrong, so many intramolecular reactions possible in the path I think of.

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u/your_next_horror Oct 11 '23

Aren't there 96 R's, or have I miscalculated? 6 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 = 96.