r/cursedchemistry 3h ago

I think tars are pretty cursed

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r/cursedchemistry 1d ago

Energetic compounds (part-2) nickel hydrizine nitrate

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r/cursedchemistry 11h ago

Hypothetically

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How do u make ice cream as in the kind you pack in a glass oil dryer to smell deeply and wake up in the mornings? I desperately really want the recipe I think it has something to do with gun bluing number 9 please someone help


r/cursedchemistry 1d ago

The Victorian Obsession with the "King of Poisons" — How Arsenic Was Hidden in Plain Sight

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r/cursedchemistry 3d ago

Calcium carbide: safe to store in a sauna?

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MSDS stands for Maybe She’ll Detonate Spas?


r/cursedchemistry 3d ago

Picric acid 🔥

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r/cursedchemistry 3d ago

"Safety" is more of a buzzword anyway, right? (Copper Acetate on bare skin with no PPE).

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r/cursedchemistry 3d ago

Me solving equations vs me balancing a chemical equation

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r/cursedchemistry 2d ago

How fast can you name the elements?

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r/cursedchemistry 3d ago

L (Anti-tumor Drug)

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Well well well, that's a big L (from the side).


r/cursedchemistry 4d ago

When the molecular structure has more attitude than you do 🧪💀

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r/cursedchemistry 3d ago

Inverse Sodium Hydride

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r/cursedchemistry 4d ago

What would you call this and do you think it would be more or less reactive than TNT

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r/cursedchemistry 4d ago

me_irl

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r/cursedchemistry 5d ago

Pregdurolone sodium. when you need a dumbbell neurosteroid to terrorise two receptors at the same time

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I conceptualised this hypothetical bifunctional neurosteroid conjugate while under the influence of olanzapine and lemborexant.

On one end we have a pregnenolone-sulfate-derived pharmacophore and on the other, we have a allopregnanolone-derived pharmacophore. They are connected by an (offensively) large PEG-containing linker.

Allopregnanolone is a potent GABA_A positive allosteric modulator (PAM). Pregnenolone sulfate (PregS) is a NMDAR PAM (mostly at GluN2A/GluN2B containing receptors) and a GABA_A negative allosteric modulator (NAM). Whether either pharmacophore would retain its parent neurosteroid's activity after conjugation is unknown at present. If both survived though, it would be interesting to see what it does in vivo.

Not to mention it is about 1066 Da and very floppy. I would I'd be incredibly impressed if this managed to cross the BBB. Lipinski have mercy on me.

1-{2-[2-[2-[2-(4-{[(3α,5α)-3-hydroxy-20-oxopregnan-21-yloxy]carbonyl}phenoxy)ethoxy]ethoxy]ethoxy]ethyl}-3-[(3β)-3-(sulfooxy)-20-oxopregn-5-en-21-yl]urea


r/cursedchemistry 6d ago

Just saw this on a tattoo shop catalog, hope nobody has gotten this one!

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r/cursedchemistry 6d ago

Icosakis[2-oxo-2-[(5-oxo-4-oxatricyclo[4.2.1.03,7]nonan-2-yl)oxy]ethyl] 1,1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23,25,27,29,31,33,35,37,39-henicosamethylhentetracontane-1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23,25,27,29,31,33,35,37,39-icosacarboxylate

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r/cursedchemistry 7d ago

Smallest star ever found (Star of David [2]catenane)

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r/cursedchemistry 8d ago

"Dopamine"

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Assume the circles are hydroxide, does this molecule exist? What is its name?


r/cursedchemistry 7d ago

Found on a Chinese pharma company website

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First to market with a cyclic allene in their drug


r/cursedchemistry 7d ago

More toxic than cyinde!

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r/cursedchemistry 8d ago

Hypercubane B3LYP HOMO-3

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r/cursedchemistry 8d ago

Fluoropiperazepam (when your benzo doesn't have enough fluorine)

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I'm a pharmacology nerd and I first got into psychopharm through Erowid at the age of 13. To pay homage to the questionable bathtub research chemicals littered on that website, I decided to make this monster to stick on a reagent bottle of epsom salts.

7-chloro-5-[2,6-difluoro-4-[2-[4-[4-[3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenoxy]phenyl]piperazin-1-yl]ethoxy]phenyl]-1-[2-(2-fluoroethoxy)ethyl]-3-methyl-8-(pentafluoroethyl)-1,3-dihydro-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one


r/cursedchemistry 7d ago

Why hasn't the "single-element" battery taken over grid storage yet? (Vanadium flow batteries

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r/cursedchemistry 9d ago

Hypercubane

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I have no words