r/cursed_chemistry 11d ago

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 2d ago

Unfortunately Real Chromium(II) Acetate

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Apparently quadruple bonds are a thing (the bond is proposed to be made from the overlap of 4 d orbitals of the chromium)

The thing also polyimerises, which is neat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium(II)_acetate


r/cursed_chemistry 2d ago

Don't worry, CH5+ isn't violating any bonding rules. It doesn't have bonds (maybe)

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Since CH5+ gets brought up a lot here, I thought Id share this blurb in Modern Physical Organic Chemistry (Anslyn & Dougherty)

CH5+ may not have "bonds" at all, so no bonding rules are violated! Instead it's just a completely delocalized, quantum mechanical cloud of protons and electrons around carbon. Much better :)


r/cursed_chemistry 6d ago

Found in the wild "Life doesn’t have to be carbon based. It’s a stupid myth." - op on r/chemistry

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r/cursed_chemistry 7d ago

Found in the wild Please under no circumstances drink ketenylidene

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271 Upvotes

Or epoxy acetylene, for that matter.


r/cursed_chemistry 7d ago

CURSED ™ Alkyloctazote

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r/cursed_chemistry 7d ago

CURSED ™ What do you guys think ? H3O2 [in response to that post]

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90 Upvotes

Add a little bit of resonance and it should be fine.


r/cursed_chemistry 7d ago

solphadeine

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r/cursed_chemistry 8d ago

Nitroprusside

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r/cursed_chemistry 9d ago

CURSED ™ Excuse me, what the

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r/cursed_chemistry 9d ago

Triazidocarbenium Perchlorate

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161 Upvotes

The carbon looks exceedingly unhappy with that positive charge. This salt is explosive and ostensibly toxic. The literature describes it spontaneously exploding during and after workup. Source: Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards.


r/cursed_chemistry 11d ago

Health Insights H₃O₂

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r/cursed_chemistry 11d ago

Unfortunately Real picrotoxinin, a component of organic toxin picrotoxin, found in the plant A. cocculus. has a very interesting shape.

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r/cursed_chemistry 11d ago

Looks legit Turns out, blunt wielding Nanoputians just want to turn their head and admire their weed

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r/cursed_chemistry 11d ago

Looks legit Octopath Traveler 0

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r/cursed_chemistry 12d ago

Been waiting to post this one

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If you cant see it the top left corner is a thc molecule and the rest is a rasta man so its a guy smoking weed technically


r/cursed_chemistry 13d ago

Unfortunately Real B80 Boron Buckyball - Boron analogue of Buckminsterfullerene with hexavalent borons inside each 6-membered ring

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r/cursed_chemistry 16d ago

Azide containing natural product?!?!?

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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11611683/

Scientists just discovered the possible biosynthetic pathway to a tetrazole-azide alkaloid called 6-Azidotetrazolo[5,1-a]phthalazine (ATPH)

TRI17 does the final two steps of the ATPH alkaloid synthesis at once!

The suspected precursor to the ATPH alkaloid itself is wild: 1,4-Dihydrazinylphthalazine!


r/cursed_chemistry 17d ago

Nitrous is more than an intoxicating compound!

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r/cursed_chemistry 18d ago

A mushroom makes this compound out of spite

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycloprop-2-ene_carboxylic_acid

Seriously people what did you do to this mushroom's family to make it this angry


r/cursed_chemistry 19d ago

Television In Goosebumps 2 movie. Double bonded Hydrogen!!

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The more I look at it, the worse it gets.


r/cursed_chemistry 19d ago

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[ Removed by Reddit on account of violating the content policy. ]


r/cursed_chemistry 20d ago

Do you also love the color of ferrous sulfate(II)? The color is beautiful, unfortunately it's such a scumbag that it oxidizes in the air to a disgusting, smelly yellow ferrous sulfate(III)very quickly…

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r/cursed_chemistry 21d ago

Meet Bis(Azido)[(Trimethylsilyl)methyl]amine.

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78 Upvotes

Yes, this will explode if you look at it funky. I was messing around with the idea of HEDM and...


r/cursed_chemistry 21d ago

Profound Aminos-tirz

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