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3:18 AM
@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. I'm back from vacation, but have a lot of things to do... maybe i have some time later this week...
 
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Q: Reviving old questions or asking a new one?

swengerI'm relatively new to the Chemistry SE community, and sometimes when I go to ask a question, I notice that the same (or similar) question has already been asked. However, the previous question doesn't have a good answer (or is unanswered). In this case, is it better to ask the question again in a...

 
 
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9:55 AM
@TanMath Uh, hello.
 
 
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Jan
@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. What the heck is Winterbash?
 
@Jan Hats!
 
Jon Ericson on December 15, 2014
There is no better antidote, at least for the worst hours and eclipses of the soul, than to conjure up...serious frivolity.- Friedrich Nietzsche
 
Jan
@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. You just hat to say that, didn't you? ;)
 
@Loong BTW it's not Jon directing this Winter Bash/bash/-bash.
 
Jan
6:57 PM
Also, should that animation read 17582?
 
@Jan yes
 
17575
I mean 17574
 
7:17 PM
\o @Ortho
 
`(.•.)´
 
Everyone gimme some CV reviews. This Ron guy is tough to beat.
 
I could always flag random posts for no good reason, then you can reject them :D
 
.__. I'm not a mod.
 
if you vote to leave open, doesn't it count as a review as well?
 
7:23 PM
It does. Oh, you mean in CV reviews?
Then I think you could do some posts of late 2012 till early 2013. THE DARK AGES
 
Jan
@orthocresol I'm totally in. Could help me get LQ reviews x3
However you're above 3k, so it's not actually flag but close ;)
 
And that's what puzzled me.
 
Jan
8:16 PM
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A: how to prepare 2-bromobutane from 1-butanol

Joel J.The hydroxyl fragment isn't a good leaving group, unless the medium is acidic. Using just HBr, you can convert the hydroxyl group into an oxonium ion (the H2O fragment would be a good leaving group). Upon heterolysis of the C-O bond, a hydride shift occurs simultaneously to create a secondary car...

Downvote please.
(Or prove I'm wrong xD)
 
You're of course wrong, but I'll downvote it.
 
@Jan According to my Organikum, you are right.
 
Even my broken organochem agrees.
 
80 % yield for 1-bromobutane after 6 h reflux with H2SO4 and HBr
 
Jan
@Loong Is that a socialist Organikum?
 
8:28 PM
@Jan 1996
 
Jan
@Loong I could check my older one when I get home, but I think your's could be more accurate here then ;)
 
the by-product is the corresponding ether
 
9:03 PM
Hey all!
 
\o
 
9:28 PM
The answer to that question is so counterintuitive :D
I kept on looking at it like "hmm, PBr3, that's going to give the wrong isomer so it can't be the answer" :D
 

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