Synthesising Cyclopentanone through Catalytic Decarboxylation or whatever the correct words are
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- Опубліковано 22 вер 2024
- It's winter solstice, so it's the ideal time to gripe about the weather. Also do some chemistry. We need cyclopentanone for another project idea, so we wind the magic wheel of chemistry and pray for good fortune. Links::: Subreddit: / explosionsandfire
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I like his videos, and not just because he is also named Tom, and also has a lab.
Music is as usual from the Aphex Twin soundcloud dump, track names are:
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I love the "rural australian illegal drug lab' decor haha the cops would think theyve found gold till they find actual chemistry going on
haha that's truer than i'd like to admit
@@ExtractionsAndIre lol, how many times have you gotten that unmistakable knock? 😂
Growing up in a semi rural community in Australia, these situations happen more often than you can imagine.
I've got the "Rural California explosive plant" vibe going in my workshop, so I feel his pain. We get a knock every few months, but they've yet to find me up to something! Reloading shotgun shells with exotic materials ISN'T illegal! Yay!
Hey, synthesizing meth is *actual* chemistry too!
High school chemistry teacher: "Now, be incredibly careful not to contaminate your sample."
Australian methcook: "Oy think thet's wotah, but em not sure, ah fack it, we'll be oright."
Just add rocks to taste
@@supernoodles908 delicious
Hahahaahaha
wow, reading this I just realized, we totally do say water as "wodah". Then again, we are clearly correct and the way everyone else says it is weird :)
@@mina47879 Petition to make Australian the new English default, starting now.
"if you can't see bad stuff happening, then it isn't happening" - ah, quantum chemistry right there.
Schrödinger's flask
>adding random rocks of unknown chemical composition to the distillation
it's like you WANT yellow chemistry or something
𝕭𝖊𝖜𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖚𝖓𝖐𝖓𝖔𝖜𝖓 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖓𝖊𝖘, 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖞 𝖇𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 𝖑𝖚𝖙𝖊𝖔𝖚𝖘 𝖘𝖕𝖎𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖘.
kidney stones >:)
A wise older grad student once gave me advice that will always stick with me. "sometimes you just have to absolutely fucking heat the fucking shit out of it."
Thanks Eric
"Don't touch the poison without the glove" Needs to be made in a T-shirt or stickers.
"I probably won't finish this until I retire in..."
You can hear the moment of his brain desperately avoiding thinking about the fact he'll never be free of this.
The speed runner split HUD was a good chuckle.
Can't wait for the Summoning Salt video.
It seems I have found a man of culture
How many buses do you think it takes to sublimate acid?
Is it bad I kinda wanted a speed run count at the end?
One day, I too will have a pantry full of things for chemistry.
Same
Life goals
It took me long and a lot of money.
@@bobdole27 CD and v
Every pantry is full of things for chemistry if you're determined enough!
Never in my entire life did I think I would see a Speedrun Split overlay in a chemistry demonstration
Really appreciate the tiny bit of meme editing on this one. This is what videos on this channel lacked, even if it's just a pinch - I'm happy
Yeah I've decided it's worth the little bit of extra effort editing to add that extra stuff in, so hopefully I get better at it
@@ExtractionsAndIre tbh I only really noticed explosions and fire thanks to the meme editing, otherwise I'd be like "oh well, another cool small chemistry channel", and not "woah, he is cool, I better recommend him to my chem friends and watch all his vids"
@@ExtractionsAndIre that's just cuz you're avoiding your thesis
Ooh fun! Forgot winter was in June in Australia
Glad I wasnt the only one to do wtf do you mean winter solstice then I remembered the southern hemisphere (and eastern for that matter) exist
Its just so weird
@@theragingbull9032 all this chemistry will being upside down, amazing.
Winter in Australia just means that you have to wear pants.
Wish this is what my winter solstice looked like. Alberta Canada is a bit cooler
12:12 what a genius fakin idea to line up the beats with the drops 👏🏿
Yeah, might fine work that. Go Tom!
That was satisfying I must say.
"It's the winter solstice so..."
It's summer here in the UK and the weather looks about the same...
I think the prisoners you send to down under got a good deal ;P
Chemist here: Good video! A short fractionating column would have improved your yield greatly since you would not have lost reactant by vaporization. It would have stayed in the reaction pot to produce more product. Off the top of my head I don't know the difference in boiling point between adipic acid and cyclopentanone, but it should be large, thus an easy separation. Also that yellow color would not have come over.
Advice: I would stop by your local constable's office and let them know that you are not cooking meth. Might save an embarrassing situation if someone gets pissed at you and makes a malicious report.
@BuickDoc in actual chemistry do you just stick rocks in the mix
@@Mav_therat Yes, 'boiling stones'. Some kind of porous silicate rock that is crushed to provide a high surface area.
@@Mav_therat Less fancy chemists use crushed glassware. And then there is Tom who just uses sand or rocks.. because Aussie shed chemistry is done with what you have while holding your phone with one hand and mixing shit that can kill you with the other.
@@Mav_therat tom uses rocks, nile loves broken glass and sand, and doug uses crushed teracota pots
actual chemist use proper boilling stones, aka some inert rock or something
@@andersjjensen That seems like the chemistry I do, just, I dont record it
The music synchronisation to the drops at 12:10 were on point
This channel has really caused me to reexamine my relationship with the color yellow.
"Don't touch the poison without the gloves"
Organic Mercury: 🤔
Nitric acid: 🤔
*fuming nitric acid
Still buys you a little more time before the mercury's in you. Nitric acid not so much.
I look forward to the coming Ochem project! Also thanks for shout-out, this put me over 3000 subscribers :)
Magnesium stearate is commonly used in pharmaceutical compounding as a lubricant. When included as an excipient it reduces sticking of the granulation to punches and dies :-)
Why does it die tho?
Hakkı Oktay too many punches, I guess. It’s a form of drug abuse.
wtaf
@@bernard2735 it also used in pills to make them bigger and more easily to press
@@Humbulla93 And also to make it more difficult to extract some active ingredients from pills.
Every aussi has had a shed like this or just been in one or two, its kinda creepy and odly nostalgic seeing the buliding gaps uneven floor random chemicals laying around and usually an old mower or two and enough screws,nails and scrap metal to build a submarine
It's not Magnesium Stearate, it's Chinesium, an unstable element.
unusable*
@@JustinKoenigSilica ... unusable ... like an iPhone, Made in China.
... or pretty much All electronic devices, like this Hewlet Packard laptop i'm typing on.
All made in typong.
converts anything it touches into chinesium
Is Chinesium yellow?
*Made in Chinesium*
No, man, you didn't just do a simple distillation in one day, it was the shortest day of the year, which of course means higher probability that things go wrong, obviously. But they didn't! Well, not a lot. Well done.
Syncing the drops with the snare at 12:12 was a nice touch.
Oh no, it’s going yellow again...
re: light coming in over the door. One thought is get an old florescent light fixture difuser and mount that ontop of the gap. Ideally I imagine that difusing the sunlight enough that with the door closed and only the top gap there it would give even lighting to the whole room, then open the door up again when not filming to get your normal airflow
The specific sun angle this would work best would be for a very short time of the day and I don't think it would be really usefull. Also diffusers eat up a lot of light, so I'm not sure the gap would have a big enough area.
@@Ajg0r A hemi-cylindrical diffuser would probably be useful for more of the year. Seen the old 2l bottle with bleach and water trick they use in shanty towns for indoor lighting? Something like that.
"or whatever the correct words are" those words alone deserve a thumbs up and I enjoyed the video too
"I just like flexing that I can locate things"
*triggered*
Can't wait for Mr. Beast to do a collab
"First one to find the Barium Hydroxide wins $2000, you have 1 hour, GO!"
@@theprogrammer32 uhhhh that man gives me shivers. nice Samaritan worked infused with pure autistic american touch of entertainment through youtubes platform.
0:08 Me in Scotland: wait wtf.....
Me 10 seconds later: aaaahhh yeaaahhh earth does the tilty thing... I swear I’m a actually good physicist... well decent at least.
I really like milk
How much Milk do you consume on a weekly basis?
@@simonwinterstein348 more than I should
@@ExtractionsAndIre same
@@ExtractionsAndIre still not enough
Ah yes, I too relish mammary gland secretion from another species in large quantities, specially if flavored with fermented and processed embryos of the _Theobroma_ genus sweetened of course with sucrose.
When you spend so long marvelling that you finished before the sun sets that the sun sets.
It got pretty close to this happening!
Ah yes, I'm in high school and when I have to use chemistry words to explain something. The amount of times I've tripped talking because I cannot words.
That title sums it all up.
Really looking forward to your retirement series in 2106
You make chemistry fun and funny. You'd be a fantastic teacher
I literally know next to nothing about chemistry but this channel makes me feel smart
fuk n right
me too
what an under rated comment
“A very long synthesis” I mean, it was only three whole years
Can't wait until the neighbors get a groundwater test.
"The sun lining up with the entry to this clandestine lab" has a better ring to it.
Actually, I believe the correct term for this reaction type is, "Ketonic Decarboxylation". It has been used for centuries to form ketones from various metallic salts of organic acids.
big up my diabetic squad who cant have ketones!
The food preservative to flammable liquid pipeline is something we all need to watch out for.
12:12 the drips timed with the beat was cool, good editing
You are by far my favorite chemistry tutor
Cool! A cubane precursor :)
Adding boiling rocks to a heated liquid... This man's got balls of steel.
Aussie boi extracts things now with even less lights!
It’s always nice seeing a physicist phd doing the most sketch ass distillation I’ve ever seen since me and my mate did one on bromine.
I subscribed because of the video title. It's so reassuring to see someone else who disdains the pedantry..
I was so confused about the winter solstice thing until I remembered the southern hemisphere exists
Finally, a chemist, who openly swears in the lab. You is my people.
You’re spot on with the niche, chemistry-related zingers in this one haha
When I saw a YELLOW package at the start I knew we were in for some fun :)!
Your humor is what keeps me watching. One can see you enjoy your chemistry.
I envisioned some sort of henge stones in your yard.
One ROCKY distillation
You'll never understand the joy of me finding the name of the Aphex Twin tunes used. Cheers lad!
I am totally addicted to your channel. Also i live in Maine and its summer here. Hope your doing ok with all this crazieness in the world.
Me too! Sanford here!
Coarse sand that had been acid piranha treated works well for boiling chips. Broken glassware bits provide clean but intermittently effective use.
If you can fuck it up slowly, you can fuck it up quickly.
I find myself thinking two things during every single one of these videos.
1. "Why the *fuck* am I watching this? I can't use this. I can't do chemistry. I only vaguely understand what's going on."
2. "...anyone reading my watch history is certain I am making drugs." followed by "...but I wouldn't be fucking broke then, would I?!"
Absolutely love the rural methlab vibe
I appreciate the thumbs up in the reflection
Me : dying of summer
E&I : "very cold, could rain, Winter solistice"
Me : confusion noises
I know this is pretty unrelated but I love the music you use in these videos
Schrodinger's flask: the bad stuff is both happening and not happening so long as you can't see it
*IT WAS TOM'S LAB HE DID IT!*
We’re all on a watch list now
Stalactites hold tight to the ceiling stalagmites might grow to touch the ceiling
3:25 "don't touch the poison without the gloves" just as an afterthought lmao
Mate....on the issue of darkness ,there is such a thing called electric lightning. Give it a try.....thx for the awesome content
Even better, candle light! Open flame in a chemistry lab; good ambience.
Love the thumbs up and waving in the reflections.
Peer to peer tv at it finest .
Fucking entertaining
Came for the chemistry but stayed for the memes and aphex jams
i love your videos man and the drug lab look is great
1/4 Australians will suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder this winter when they realize their seasons are all wrong.
*product is explosive and highly dangerous, not properly contained*
Aussie Chems - “She’ll be roight”
Used to use adipic, chlorendic and glycols to create flame retardants for plastic. Love how your videos make me reminisce my days in chemical industry.
Another amazing vid! I'm never unimpressed by your skill and knowledge
Lol funny coincidence, I was cutting my video for the synthesis of Adipic acid and just at this moment I saw, that you uploaded that video 😂
Nice work as always 💪🏼
You synthesising adipic acid? That's cool!
@@ExtractionsAndIre yes man, funny coincidence :D
@@chemify2384 By oxidation of castor oil using nitric acid? Or the more 'modern' route by oxidation of cyclohexene or cyclohexanone? The castor oil route sounds cool but I haven't looked into any practical details of the process.
4:49
Tom: Ah, y'know, fuck it. Should be alright.
And now the yellow reaction timer starts. 🤣
5:02
I think that that's a new record for Tom. LOOOOOL!!! 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
I appreciate the editing though! I love how the drops match the snare
"don't touch the poison without the gloves" - hot tip
Very professional title!
A tip: look at what direction you put the lab stand! If you put it away from the load you need weight more often then 180 degrees the otherway. Sidewides to cooler is not good either, preferrably the stand end under the cooler.
Hang a thin, white sheet as a "wall" between you and the door. It will soften and diffuse the sunlight but still allow you to vent the room.
"We're trying to make cyclohexane"
YOU WHAT?!
"*cyclopentane"
Oh shit he might actually make it to a dangerous compound now
The company I work at once got a sample of hydrazine labeled as cellulose
Thats great, just sitting in the balcony, watching dude from Australia, and he drops fact that its shortest day there. Me as sort of from centre of the Europe, wait what?! And some flash backs just hit Me from shortest night celebration. God i love science.
Love the Aphex ❤
I knew you were a breakbeat/idm fan watching your vids but I didn’t realize it was all Aphex Twin soundcloud tracks
Yeah how good are they! Some good gems in there
buy a lamp Tom
I would like to see you attempt creating a perchlorylamine compound. I think it would not only be rather simple, but it'll also make a terrifying explosive. ( Primary amine reaction with dichlorine Heptoxide )
I think calling a reaction simple when you use a reagent like dichlorine heptoxide is pretty insulting to safety standards everywhere haha. I'd love to make Cl2O7 one day. I have the reagents I think, but I still haven't come up with a way of comfortably doing it safe enough!
@@ExtractionsAndIre I mean... what's so unsafe about perchloric acid and white phosphorus? Lmao. I've seriously enjoyed your videos though, as a O-chemist who works in synth, its always a pleasure. :)
Whats your quest: to make cyclopentane. Whats your favourite colour? Yellow... Aaaaaaarrrrgggghhhhhhh
I love the energy.
"Yeah, she'll be right"
i'm ready to have the 2023 crossed out on my cubane tattoo
Thanks for the new vid haha, I run out of videos of your to watch :D
here’s what i picked up:
step one: idk go on youtube
step two: ?̴̠̃?̸̥͋̅?̷̣͕̋?̶̰̀?̷̘͇͌?̶̧͊?̷̛̝̺?̵́̃ͅ
step theee: *c h e e s e t o a s t*
step four: product
Tom, you give hope to the inattentive and easily distracted amateur chemist. A cheese toastie should be a step in any enjoyable synthesis!
Barium Hydroxide, didn't you also use that during the ferrate stream? I mean, back then there were jokes about making "a certain organic compound which I can't say the name of", this product actually looks like it's in the right direction. You just need to get rid of a few methylene groups to move on to the next step. :P
Did we use it then?? Can't remember. And oh are you getting excited because it's got a ketone group lol, yeah we're not going there!
@@ExtractionsAndIre IIRC it was to precipitate out the ferrate.
No acetone but despite that this video was definitely worth sharing on r/yellowchem.
Damn; I wanted to see the synthesis of the cheese toasty
I have no idea what I just watched....but I liked it.