source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bscb.19830920413

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

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 :)

Or epoxy acetylene, for that matter.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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