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| Monday, 22 January 2007 | |
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A music video set to Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love". I decided to break my rule of posting only once a week. Well, I haven't posted during the break, but the blog ate something, so.... A major reason for breaking the rule is that if I don't post this now, the Chemical Blogosphere is going to distribute it very widely first, and I want UMD students to know that the Chem/Biochem Graduate Student Organization is a valuable source of information. We won't wait when breaking an important story. So, I present to you a music video made by a group of organic grad students who had entirely way too much time, set to Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love". You might have to see the original (for those young people born in the 1980s who were too busy playing with toys in kindergarten to truly appreciate the genius that was Robert Palmer) to fully appreciate this gem. Me? I couldn't take it. I only watched a third of the video before I had to turn it off. I hate the original, and the remake, although significantly better, was a little... corny. Still, many others like it. I forced myself to watch all of it before posting it here. Truly, a professional job. They were as gods, those grad students who made this video. Here's the link (our forum doesn't have youtube embedding software, so you have to go to their website to watch it; trust me - it's worth it). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWE6uPPmgb4 Oh, and before I forget, here are the lyrics:
Whoa, you like to think it will react with the stuff, oh yeah It's closer to the truth to say you can't add enough You know you're gonna have to face it, it's resistant to base. You check pH, it's past fourteen Your stirring bar is dissolving The TLC shows no products Another mole and then reflux! With LDA, it won't react Butyllithium just might abstract That hydrogen that won't obey Le Chatelier's communiqué Whoa, you like to think it will react with the stuff, oh yeah It's closer to the truth to say you can't add enough You know you're gonna have to face it, it's resistant to base. REFRAIN Might as well face it, it's resistant to base. x5 Your sodium t-butoxide And ammonium hydroxide Your KOH and hydrazine Push the pH beyond eighteen REFRAIN Check out the discussion forum thread on this article. |
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You're in the lab, working alone.
Your synthesis is nearly done
Just add a chain to that carbon.
You can't wait to alkylate
But first you must deprotonate
You add a mole of LDA
To overcome that pKa