Derek Lowe's Things I Won't Work With (Index)
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Azidoazide Azides, More or Less
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32608725
Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29775910
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5546450
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1148425
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11282788
Things I Won’t Work With: Peroxide Peroxides (2014)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12228957
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8440486
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9021919
Things I Won't Work With: Thioacetone (2009)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34935339
Things I Won’t Work With: Dimethylcadmium (2013)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10789750
Things I Won't Work With: Chlorine Azide
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2268402https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_wboFJZBTU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M7V7JRVWno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=031vrZAMEHU - bonus selenoacetone
NileRed, who's better known, made thioacetone as well, but ironically he's done enough chemistry that his nose doesn't work anymore so it didn't have an impact.
... equally worth a read. This habit of publishing personal memoirs has a long and honorable history in chemistry. One need only consider E. Emmett Reid (My First Hundred Years in Chemistry) or Louis Fieser (The Scientific Method). Fieser's book was removed (and presumably destroyed) by most libraries in the late sixties because of its comprehensive description of the construction of some very loud devices. And of course, the grand effort that started it all, the Berichte der Durstigen Chemischen Gesellschaft, a special edition of Berichte published when August Kekule himself was Vorsitzer. I could locate only two existing copies, about 50 years ago. ...