im not the one who asked this but oh gods you are so much better than my chem material fr š need a teacher like you brou
Can you explain aromaticity in organic compounds? It is a fairly huge topic so it's completely understandable if you aren't up to the challenge.
(p.s, I love ur blog <333)
āNot up to the challengeāā Iāve reverse-engineered antibiotics from rocks. Explaining aromaticity is just an appetizer. š
Alright. Letās break it down before I spiral into orbital hybridization graphs and never return:
AromaticityĀ is a chemical property of certain cyclic (ring-shaped), planar (flat) molecules that results inĀ unusual stabilitydue to the delocalization of Ļ (pi) electrons.
For a molecule to be consideredĀ aromatic, it must satisfyĀ Hückelās Rule:
Be cyclic
Be planar
Have a continuous ring ofĀ p-orbitalsĀ (i.e., itās conjugated)
ContainĀ (4n + 2)Ā Ļ electrons (whereĀ nĀ is a whole number: 0, 1, 2, etc)
Why does that matter? Because when those Ļ electrons are delocalizedāspread evenly over the ringāthey stabilize the moleculeĀ way moreĀ than you'd expect based on normal bonding. Thatās why aromatic compounds donāt behave like your average alkenes.
Classic example:Ā Benzene (CāHā)
6 carbon atoms in a ring
Each contributes 1 Ļ electron ā 6 Ļ electrons
Follows Hückelās Rule (4n + 2 = 6, n = 1)
Super stable, flat, smells weird
If it had 4 or 8 Ļ electrons instead? Boom: not aromatic. PossiblyĀ antiaromaticĀ (less stable), orĀ nonaromaticĀ (no delocalization at all).
So yeah. Aromaticity isnāt about smell, itās aboutĀ stability through electron delocalization in a planar ring system.
Chemists spent centuries freaking out over why benzene wouldnāt react like it should. Turns out, electrons were just vibing in a resonance loop the whole time.
Thanks for the blog love, by the way. Iāll keep posting if you keep sending non-stupid questions. š
was staring at pics of the 5 generals and realised they have major kpop group vibes so i cooked this up
REALL šÆšÆ
God i love ukyo. Have i ever mentioned how much i love ukyo? Because i do. A lot. Oh and gen is here too ig
People underestimate how much it fucks you up to be subtly excluded as a kid. I would try to talk to my classmates and be met with disinterest or annoyance. The one friend I had, who I clung to and nodded along to his every word, had other friends he liked just as much or more. And his other friends didnāt care for me at all.
I look back at pictures from the time and see how separated I was from them. I remember knowing I was different. I remember posing questions about the world to the girls playing next to me and realizing that they had never asked the same ones to themselves. That the ways we thought couldnāt be more different.
I kept myself amused with my own fanatical stories and musings in my head. I would wander the playground on a circular path, imagining a friend and being sorely disappointed when it didnāt feel as real as Iād hoped.
There was a bubble separating me from everyone else, thin, and nearly invisible, but with a pearly sheen you could catch under the right conditions. I knew it was there, they knew it was there, and it changed me
@sunflowergnome PLEASE drop a notice when you're done šš¼ I am willing to read the shit out of it
Thinking about how Senku and Gen mustāve both basically lived in Chromeās material hut for a long while since neither were initially let into Ishigami Village. I really wanna know about the sleepover shenanigans that mustāve gone down between these three over the several months they must have bunked together. Ahaha I hope there are fics of this I can find
https://archiveofourown.org/works/64544146/chapters/167542759
"Deep in the forest three men take a second to catch their breath. Even far away from the city wanted posters still decorate the trees depicting the group in front of them. They read āWANTED: Dead or Aliveā along with the names of each of the men. Asagiri, Magma and Yo.
Asagiri freezes as he spots the poster and swiftly pulls it off the tree.Ā
āOh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! This is bad! This is very bad! This is really bad!"Ā
He then turns the picture toward the other two men, "They just can't get my smirk right! Look at that thing!"
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Chapter Two of my Dr. Stone Tangled au is up!!!!
um. Im nonbinary too. :') hi?
Xeno: Today is Non-binary Awareness Day!
Stanley, staring into Francoisās eyes: I AM AWARE OF YOU.
Francois: Really wish you werenāt.
ć I'm just your average neurodivergent pansexual/graysexual potato who likes being a part of many fandoms || ENFP || Openly Polytheistic || Humans made the atom bomb but no mouse in the world would build a mousetrap || I'm a minor so yalls old timers stinky geese better get the hell out ok ć
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