![]() For a more complete control experiment, we used John Cage’s 4’33’’ For example, “Smoke on the Water” and “Feel Good Inc.” produced good yields of 2, while Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” gave only trace amounts of product. We tested a number of classic songs and ascertained that a strong bass line was essential to initiate the Grignard reaction (scheme 1). Some further investigation eliminated the first explanation: Shia Labeouf’s “just do it” talk was completely ineffective while “bangarang” initiated the reaction. We hypothesised two explanations for this effect: 1) This absolute banger was capable of providing motivation on a molecular level, or 2) thumping bass was eliciting an effect similar to sonication and helping to dislodge the oxide layer from the Mg turnings. Playing Bon Jovi made Pete’s Grignard reaction work better. Resigned, he set the reaction up again, only to encounter the same lack of reactivity, and the same solution. Returning to work on Monday, Pete discovered that his reaction was now an ethereal suspension of magnesium hydroxide, as he had left it stirring under house-nitrogen 2 for the whole weekend. ![]() Then he went to the pub and forgot all about it. Perplexed, Pete pondered if pounding pop-songs had prompted his product to proliferate. On his final paranoia-suppression walkaround, he noticed that his Grignard reaction was merrily boiling away. While blasting out the lyrics to this classic cleaning-up song, Pete shut down the lab. Should have known better than to do this on a Friday-avo.” He returned to his mountain of dirty glassware, pausing only to queue up “Livin’ on a Prayer” on the stereo and max the volume. Exasperated, our hero exclaimed “Well fuck it then, guess this is a Monday-Pete problem. More iodine elicited no response, so he tried Br 2, then TMSCl, then dibromoethane, then heating and finally abuse, all without effect. Pete added a pinch of iodine, while checking the time furtively. Just as he began washing up, he noticed that the reaction had not initiated. Earlier in the afternoon, he’d set up a Grignard reaction (the old-fashioned way), hoping to dump in his electrophile at 5 pm and bugger off down the pub. Pete was rushing to finish his lab work, hoping to make it to the biannual West Failure trivia night at The King’s Kneecap. Like so many good stories, this one begins on a Friday afternoon. Unfortunately, sonochemistry already exists, so we’re using music instead and calling it “echochemistry”. We defiantly can’t beat them, so we’ve developed our own iteration of this copy-catalysis by exposing chemical reactions to sounds. However, pointing this out doesn’t change the fact that we have to compete with these people for grants. It might be a mechanochemically generated Grignard reagent, an electrochemical Birch reduction, a lithiation in flow, a photocatalytic halogenation or even an organocatalytic Suzuki coupling. More specifically, they are finding new ways of doing the same reactions they were doing 20 years ago, with a twist. ![]() as of August 2015, and over 1.5 million copies worldwide, going gold in Germany selling 100,000 copies.Pete Tcharkovsky, A Freddy Chopin, A Johnny Strauss, A Eddie Greig, Jimmy Puccini, A Archduke Metallica A and Günther Schlonk B*Ībstract: Chemists are constantly pushing the boundaries of synthetic methodology. The album has sold 220,000 copies in the U.S. ![]() 1 in US after The Circle and Lost Highway and their fifth No. What About Now became their third album in a row to hit No. 1 in the U.S., where it sold 101,000 copies in its first week, debuting at No. It is the last album to feature lead guitarist Richie Sambora before he left the band later that same year and the last album where bass guitarist Hugh McDonald is an unofficial member before becoming an official member in 2016. The album was promoted throughout the band's 2013 Because We Can: The Tour. Produced by John Shanks, the album was released on Main Australia and Main the United States. What About Now is the twelfth studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi. ![]()
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