Making Cubane Finale - Its Done

Head to https://squarespace.com/amateurchemistry to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code AMATEURCHEMISTRY In this video I finish the 4 month long journey to make the legendary cubane 1,4-dicarboxylic acid methyl ester while creating an assortment of tars some of which probably contain my product. If you enjoyed the video consider liking it, sharing it with a friend, and subscribing to my channel - I would really appreciate that :) If you want to further support my work and watch exclusive content here's my Patreon - / amateurchemistry Instagram - / amateurchemistry_ TikTok - / amateur.chemistry Also, excuse me for my poor speaking, English is not my native language so I have some trouble with pronunciation, in case you don't understand something there are always subtitles made by me. Reference papers: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/244572672_Dimethyl_Cubane-14-dicarboxylate_A_Practical_Laboratory_Scale_Synthesis https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA210368.pdf https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/op400181g https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/OB/D3OB00231D 0:00 Intro 1:05 Diketal deprotection to diketone 7:49 The scary photoreaction 12:15 Finally creating some cubes (Cubane 1,4-dicarboxylic acid) 15:00 Making a methyl ester of my cubane 16:05 Failing miserably in carrying out a column chromatography 18:24 Outro #chemistry #experiment #beautiful #demonstration #science #interesting #cubane #organicchemistry #cool #reaction Original: “Amateur Chemistry” Original: German. All translations in this video have been done by alugha AI.

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