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@J-nl3ly
6 ай бұрын
Attended Prof. Bertrand's seminar a few days ago. The motivation was simple - you have stable carbenes and why not oxidizing them. His discoveries were crystal clear, only to recognize how challenging and tedious to materialize them. :)
@CaptainForest34
6 ай бұрын
Aah, the shiny orbitals fron IboView @ 6:41. *Chef's kiss
@samueldeschwanden3065
6 ай бұрын
Your content is just 🔥
@totalsynthesis
6 ай бұрын
🙏
@Jiaxin0
6 ай бұрын
Unreal 😮
@marcodecorti3522
6 ай бұрын
Excelletn explanation of this complex paper
@totalsynthesis
6 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@ligmabaldrich485
6 ай бұрын
Amazing video! Would love to see more on inorganic/organometallic stuff, as well as molecular orbitals. Thanks :)
@timecode37
6 ай бұрын
This topic is cool
@totalsynthesis
6 ай бұрын
Pretty fire compound
@katiefrisk980
6 ай бұрын
very illegal
@annaberlin4008
4 күн бұрын
😍😍😍Thanks✨
@LiborTinka
6 ай бұрын
Well many compounds violate the octet rule - periodic acid is one such example commonly presented. Wasn't the existence of such compunds the initial motivation for building molecular orbital theory? It's like the theories of acids: Arrhenius -> Brondsted-Lowry -> Lewis (sorry for ommiting diacritics - lazy)... Each theory is useful to a point. In the end it's all quantum physics and that is difficult if not impossible to compress into few rules of thumb - this is why there are always exceptions in chemistry. This reminds me of an old paper I've read where researches calculated Gibbs free energies for several possible ligand exchanges on a single octahedral complex of magnesium only to find out which one is more likely. The computation was done on a CRAY-Y supercomputer ... and that's just a single complex of a single element in a single oxidation state... This made me understand why quantum computers are such a hot topic in certain areas.
@totalsynthesis
6 ай бұрын
Yes, obviously many compounds and I agree with your perspective. But I think it's pretty crazy that we can create a carbon with 4 valence electrons nevertheless!
@LiborTinka
6 ай бұрын
@@totalsynthesis Indeed. Unfortunately, it will take me many dozens of hours of study until I will be able to appreciate this :( Bookmarking your video for this possible future...
@chadkline4268
6 ай бұрын
I don't agree with that perspective at all. It's all nonsense in my view. All molecules comprise nuclei that behave on the scale of molecules as electrostatic point charges, and electrically charged electrons exist as charge and current densities that obey Maxwell’s equations, and the binding is determined by electrical and electrodynamics forces. Nothing in chemistry is indeterminate. Nothing in chemistry requires quantum computers. I am trying to understand what is going on here so I may be able to explain things in a better way. Unfortunately, the chemistry is beyond my working knowledge. But the physics is exactly what I am interested in. I don't understand how scientific minds can look at the mess called modern quantum physics and see anything scientific about it. It's a complete disaster in a scientific view.
@chadkline4268
6 ай бұрын
I wish Mr TS would try to avoid giant complex molecules if possible and put forth the most simple example possible to demonstrate his point, and then stop. Then we can break down the physics. Unfortunately, these comments do not allow more than basic math. I don't like the term steric effects either. It's so vague.
@yxlop4893
6 ай бұрын
Very nice, I wonder how much of the + charge really rests on that central carbon, as calculated.
@mintedauag512
6 ай бұрын
I'm enjoying this ty
@totalsynthesis
6 ай бұрын
Great to hear!
@cleverskipper3866
Ай бұрын
What is the (Cp*)P2+ compund called that you mentioned as a lewis base?
@victordonchenko4837
6 ай бұрын
Isn't another resonance form just a carbodiimide, attached to two iminiums? What's so special about this? I'm wondering.
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