The Periodic Table

But the AIM ELF basin populations don't support that:
C LP - 2.49e (Slightly over one lone pair on C)
C-O bond - 3.07e (~1.5-order bond)
O LPs - 4.23e (~two lone pairs)

Again, that C-O bond in CO looks to have appreciable charge-shift bond character. High-level, that means that electron density gets "smooshed" out from the bonding region and (often) into the lone-pair region of the atoms involved.

Much of the smooshed density appears to end up on carbon, with a tad going onto the oxygen.

DHMO

so what is the conclusion? @hBy2Py

hBy2Py

CO has a double bond with charge shift character

HCO+ is likely protonated CO, also with a C=O double bond, with some charge shift character but overall less than with CO

Protonation of CO appears to change the direction of the dipole moment rather dramatically

@DHMO Not sure if there's any particular connection back to the mass spectrum of formic acid

DHMO

5:35 PM

is it particularly stable?

hBy2Py

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I can't tell that from the quick analyses I've done thus far.

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M.A.R.

6:37 PM

@paracresol I will deflect the nukes with my coolness

M.A.R.

6:48 PM

!!flip/Be Nice

Chemobot

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Jan

@Loong There’s a connection between Word and typography?

M.A.R.

@Jan Yes.

Loong

Is that supposed to be a rhetorical question?

M.A.R.

The amount of time you spend typing a document in Word is inversely proportional to your typography skills powered by 1/4.

Jan

6:52 PM

@hBy2Py Well, you can synthesise carbon monoxide by adding sulphuric acid to formic acid; the mechanism is probably protonation, loss of H2O and then loss of the H-C proton. So there’s no reason why it wouldn’t happen in MS.

It’s supposed to be a joke question ^^ @M.A.R. picked it up well ^^

Loong

@M.A.R. Actually, people without such skills can be very fast. However, the results speak for themselves.

M.A.R.

And an echo question grammatically

@Loong Fast is usually of poor quality

Unless it's a formula one race.

Loong

heh

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orthocresol

8:29 PM

I'm nowhere near an expert on this but my best guess is that the diene coordinates to Pd. The OH attacks the diene generating a Pd-allyl species and then chloride attacks (first step similar to the Wagner oxidation, last step similar to a Trost allylation). — orthocresol ♦ 7 hours ago

9 upvotes?? really...?

I guess that means I'm probably correct..

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Jan

10:38 PM

Epic day number 33~ \o/

@ortho I wonder why your post didn’t get any upvote other than mine yet ô.o

Loong

11:00 PM

@Jan because he cannot count to three ;-)

Jan

@Loong You know that there are three kinds of people? ;)

DHMO

11:40 PM

@orthocresol do you think 9 knowledgeable people came over and upvoted your comment?

they just think it's plausible

@Loong could you do MO-calculations of t-BuH?

Loong

@DHMO no, not really

DHMO

@hBy2Py the above

ok thanks @Loooooong

@Loong what about MeCl?

i'm probably more interested in MeI though

or MeO-Na+

orthocresol

@Loong Oops...

trying to think of a HL3 joke

Jan

@orthocresol Half-Life 3 confirmed? =O

orthocresol

11:56 PM

Personally I'm waiting for Portal 3 although I suspect they aren't working on it :(

Jan

Still trying to think of a witty quote to slap between acknowledgements and introduction. I don’t like the fact that they are left page–right page. But maybe I should just leave an intentionally blank page?

Loong

@Jan I quoted Marie Curie. That was an easy choice in my case.