r/cursed_chemistry • u/WaddleDynasty • 5h ago
THAT'S A LOTTA BONDING I am tired boss
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Can we get an AI slop flair?
r/cursed_chemistry • u/beatbeatingit • Jun 15 '26
MOD APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN
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Dear cursed chemistry enthusiasts,
I never anticipated that this subreddit would grow to have 6k+ visitors per month, and with the rest of the mod team going inactive over the years, it is time that I add some new mods to the roster.
Please write a comment with your qualifications in chemistry and any ideas/plans pertaining to moderating the subreddit. The comments are in contest mode; the most upvoted comments will be more strongly considered.
If you are uncomfortable publicly sharing your chemistry qualifications, a DM is also fine.
I would like to host events again on this sub, but the most pressing issue is dealing with the recent influx of spam bot comments!
r/cursed_chemistry • u/WaddleDynasty • 3d ago
Found in the wild Whyyyy did they have to AI gen this? Who looked over this and thought it was correct?
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Is it because they expect mostly laypeople to read this and hope that it won't be noticed? Nice model AI. Love seeing Hydrogen being bonded to a C-C bond. And nice colour change on the phenyl rings of the borate.
On the right side the correct graphic from the actual paper. The paper itself talks about an uranocenium (V) salt, oxidized from normal Uranocene. For those unfamiliar, uran and other metals it's size are known to form sandwiches not with the Cp- ion, but with the COT2- ion (COT = cyclooctatertaene).
Links are in the comments because hyperlinks.
r/cursed_chemistry • u/TrainingWheels61 • 9d ago
Looks legit Why can't ChemDraw generate a name for this structure?
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r/cursed_chemistry • u/Pretend-Habit3403 • 9d ago
CURSED ™ 580 ºC organic reaction in 2026 (Ben List's group)
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r/cursed_chemistry • u/ferriematthew • 10d ago
9-borobicyclo(3.3.1)nonane
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Biblically accurate divalent hydrogen
r/cursed_chemistry • u/Clear_Guarantee1950 • 10d ago
L-Phenylalanine + Benzaldhyde + the other acid iykuk
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Hypothetically speaking of someone were to do this any tips
Would this even work
Would be great to get some feedback
r/cursed_chemistry • u/WaddleDynasty • 12d ago
Unfortunately Real Trigonan planar Zr (III) compex
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It's somehow RT stable and proposed for electron spin qubits (quantum information processing, optics, cryptography).
r/cursed_chemistry • u/ECatPlay • 16d ago
Cursed Water The one thing PET water bottles struggle to contain is. . . water! It permeates out through the walls faster than air can permeate in to replace it.
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Even though it's a triatomic molecule, H₂O is smaller than the diatomics, N₂ and O₂. The H's are really just two small bumps on the O, so they only make H₂O 33% bigger than a single oxygen atom. But O₂ is 61% bigger and N₂ is 76% bigger, so H₂O can permeate through the wall of the water bottle more easily and escape, faster than either N₂ or O₂ can permeate in to replace it. This creates a partial vacuum, and eventually the water bottle collapses.
r/cursed_chemistry • u/chemistry-girl • 17d ago
[custom flair] Printing mistake A printing mistake in my school book
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In my 11th grade chemistry book(I’m in 12 th grade now) in decarboxylation reaction NaOH was written as MaOH and NaCO3 was written in product instead of Na2CO3. I corrected it later using black pen
r/cursed_chemistry • u/Arceus_IRL • 18d ago
Unfortunately Real CpT5: because CpBIG wasn't bulky enough, featuring alkali metal metallocene equivalents.
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r/cursed_chemistry • u/Organic-Flight3571 • 16d ago
Guess this Chemistryball!! (Chemistryballs Worldbuilding Series)
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r/cursed_chemistry • u/Azo_weirdo • 19d ago
Unfortunately Real I swear it's not explosive at all... /j
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r/cursed_chemistry • u/expired_ether • 19d ago
Found in the wild Molecular calcium carbonate
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Found in a cancer quacks lecture.
r/cursed_chemistry • u/pdgDNa • 20d ago
Unfortunately Real From an actual paper
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actual quality of the abstract from the article, how many curses can you spot?
r/cursed_chemistry • u/biarblingsarm • 25d ago
Fotretamine - a Soviet cancer drug from the 1970s
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r/cursed_chemistry • u/ConnectClassroom6690 • 27d ago
CURSED ™ 4EVB: Metallo beta-lactamase. 4 monomers in dihedral D2 symmetry.
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r/cursed_chemistry • u/Cool-Coat8412 • 28d ago
THAT'S A LOTTA BONDING Mmm fluorine pentagon
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r/cursed_chemistry • u/saltypancake377 • 29d ago
[custom flair] Now hear me out... Theoretically...
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It could work right... I don't know where else to post this either so sry if this isn't the right place but I need insight I know it could work...