• marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today
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    Organic chem is fun. It’s also the worst possible course of study to ever require for anyone outside organic chem majors.

    Short answer? This substrate produces H2, formate and acetate. The carbon would mostly be dissolving via formic acid into formate.

    Long answer?

    Organic Chemistry is literally magic, don’t think about it too hard unless you’ve dedicated your life to it.

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      It’s also the worst possible course of study to ever require for anyone outside organic chem majors.

      I loved biology and statistics, and was pretty neutral towards calculus, but for some reason, chemistry is incomprehensible to me (Physics too, but that’s because neither the teacher nor I knew how to use my Casio graphing calculator, so I tried to do all the math on paper and ended up wasting the whole class doing arithmetic instead of listening-I’ve thought about taking a basic physics course at a community college, but I don’t think even that would help with chemistry).

      My sister’s a science teacher and was taking masters level organic chemistry classes while I was taking high school chemistry. At one point she showed me some of her coursework and I literally decided in that moment that I didn’t want to study biology badly enough to go through organic chemistry.

      That sounds like she’s a really bad teacher, lol, but my strengths are definitely in different areas, so it’s also a fair insight.

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      18 hours ago

      Here a [Co4Zr2O(OnPr)10(acac)4] single-source precursor is deposited onto Al-doped SrTiO3 […]

      what the…?!?