Purifying the Tar - Cubane Finale
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I really liked the part where he purified the tar to make more pure tar
Petrochemistry
There’s always more tar
It's all tar all the way down
Holds the fabric of space mate, should be called tar matter not dark LMFAO @@BarackLesnar
@@ExtractionsAndIre what in TARnation?!?!?!?
"Nothing is perfect...Nothing is even very good." Now that's some real science for you lads.
I laughed way too hard when he said that
We’ll settle with ok like real scientists
This statement also makes you sound like a boomer.
Sounds like you studied psychology
ok, zoomer @@n3ffo
2023: Tom finishes PhD, synthesizes cubane, and successfully uses a Dremel tool. Such progress.
Had to be be the wonkiest blade too lol oval tool almost aha so fitting
What next he'll conquer the color yellow?
@@tempy2440needs to pair up with Nile red again and do more piss chemistry; exposure therapy
and he also has a nice moosetache now, way to go Tom!
@@quesecchu7026look at the power of the moostache
Half expected Tom's centrifuge to just be him tying some string around the vial of sample and spinning it around his head really fast
:D
I was expecting something cludged out of a salad spinner
This channel should probably be renamed to Scunge&Tar.
Nonsense & Tar
@@junkjunkloot4357Yellow and Tar
Tar&Moretar
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That'll be his Nu Punk band's name. 👍
“cant make a couple eggs without breaking a frying pan” i think sums up this entire channel’s way of doing things
Improvements: Now make the diol so you can make it into a polyester and sell literal cubane shirts.
I think it’d be a liquid at room temp
@@olivier74Never seen a shirt that turns liquid at room temperature before! Would be a first!
@@olivier74winter clothing you say
@@IneaFaedyn Lmao
@@olivier74 liquid polyester would surely be something. Yet I don't think so.
"HO-O-🎁-O-OH!" -Cubane Santa
omg
did you mean peroxSanta?
The surprise isn't having a centrifuge. It's having a legit centrifuge that's working, balanced and not dangerous?!
I'm a total civilian here, so apologies for my ignorance.
Why would a centrifuge be dangerous?
@@huszaratraktor because tom is using it
@@huszaratraktor Because it rotates at very high speeds and if it is not balanced and in good condition it can self destruct with explosively result.... (also a civilian but did spend some time assisting my brother in the lab and he explained the many dangers...)
And an eppendorf one!
@@huszaratraktorit turns out that things spinning at very high speed produces very high forces which, if suddenly unbalanced in some way, can tear the machine apart
As a synthetic organic chemist who's been doing thermal-promoted cycloadditions, I have learned the ways of tar. Seeing you scrape the tar at the bottom to try get some more yield out is such a mood.
I did not think a simple 6TD would be a tar generator :(
All during this series I aged: my life situation is different, I have a lab now, started college, i still make negative money, and i’ve had a girlfriend for two years. I’m gonna miss this series. Don’t cry because it’s over, cry because it happened.
I cry every episode
hope this doesn’t come off as a backhanded complement - i wanted to say that part of the reason i really like watching your chemistry videos is because they feel so much more relatable than other youtube chemistry channels where everything goes right the first time and such. it makes chemistry feel like something i could actually do if i put my mind to it and put a lot of work in like you do. channels like nile red feel almost too much like magic and i can’t even see myself really ever being able to do the things he does, but your whole setup feel so much more natural to me. thanks for making chemistry feel more accessible! you’re the best
I mean to be fair, NileRed does fuck up a lot. He has a lab that's a lot more... polished than Tom's, but he does still fuck up fairly often
This is the most realistic presentation of what it’s like to do chemistry at the graduate student level. It’s just all fucked but you keep going for a really long time and hope you’ll get something decent at the end of it.
@@thewilltheway Perfect metaphor for life
Other youtubers may have been the first to obtaine cubane technically, but your cubane is first and foremost in our hearts. The dedication, the sheer force of will displayed over the many years is unmatched and it is nice to see the chemistry gods finally allow you to reach the level of ultimate at home chemist : Cubane Creator
This was a beautiful journey to witness, keep up the important work mate
9:43 I genuinely appreciate you clearing this up. My instant, first thought was "Who does he have cleaning it up??"
Haha yeah it’s just me, as always
The staff at the extractions and ire lab LLC.
@@timberinternational2377I thought that was just monkeys with typewriters
*Oh, wearing lab coats.
Honestly with how you were talking about the centrifuge i was 100% expecting it to be a hand crank one lol
Yep, the tar sure does look like something you'd perform an enema analysis on.
He already has an HPLC in his nose so maybe his other holes also have analytical equipment?
I'm kinda sad we're at the end of this series. I've enjoyed watching each new iteration as they'd come out. I've learned a lot. Looking forward to the wrap up video. Thanks for all the great content. :)
I’ve enjoyed making a long series like this a lot! Especially one with such a clear goal, which we finally achieved after 3 years, in pretty much exactly the way we planned from the beginning. Good fun!
Perhaps a new series can be started?
@@ExtractionsAndIrenow start another like this and have your future kids wrap it up
🎉🎉🎉 congrats on extracting the cube. Here's an idea: why don't you try some of the extracts from your old attempts (pre-benzophenone) and see if they have cubane in them. Perhaps you had Chemiolis beat the whole time, just didn't realize it. @ExtractionsAndIre
FYI Tom, centrifuges almost always have a manual lid release so you can open them if the power goes out or the centrifuge malfunctions. It's often a string on the bottom you pull to open the latch, but I've seen other types e.g. for our eppendorf microfuge you have to remove a plastic cover and turn the latch with a hex key. It would be worth finding out how it works on yours...
Oh interesting, thanks!!
Honey come quick new cubane vid just droped
CUBE CUBE CUBE CUBE
@@leerypixel Cubane the Science Pain?
The cubane was also synthesised in a reasonable period of time
21:31 chemist emulates the joys of life
Only 5 Russian days!
@@christianhunt7382 I know right??? its crazy that it only took a light gulag sentence that you got from frowning near ivan to make the cubane.
I'm imagining the explosions and fire episode about this entire process is gonna feel like a fever dream
The final Ex&F episode: Octanitrocubane
Especially the part with the bird nest
One thing that impresses me about this whole cubane synthesis series is that you stuck with it. Literal years of attempts finally came together. Congratulations!
Step 1: clear out the animals from the shed, step 2: begin purification, step 3: clear out the spiders from the shed, step 4: begin reflux, step 5: check on the baby birds in the shed…
More phosphorous pentoxide. Wait for it to stop raining. More phosphorous pentoxide. Wait for it to stop hailing.
Lose end: blowing up a can with it.
This has been a superb series I've enjoyed it all thoroughly! Cheers
Everyone involved in this project knew from the beginning that there would be tar.
Ideally your vacuum source is near your cold water inlet so the vapors have to travel up next to the cold finger. Probably contributed to a loss of yield
Yes I thought about that. Was probably a more ideal set up, but I could not work it out with the glassware I have
It makes even more sense imo to seal the apparatus and turn the pump off so none of the product is lost
Tip! I recommend using an electric engraver, with its tungsten tip, you hold it like a pencil and it cuts borosilicate glassware like a laser, no chipping, and no shattering! 123 and modification a go!
Ok thanks!!
The contrast between Tom and NileRed is really quite something.
The contrast between NileRed and NileGreen is really quite something.
That's Mr. Red ;)
Whoa whoa, lets not forget Nileblue. Might be a short guy but alot of love to give
NileRed? The piss chemist?
ngl, nile seems to have fallen into a really deliberate and robotic speaking style. at least tom is still a human
BRO IS ONE OF THE MOST ENTERTAINING PHYSICIST/ CHEMIST IVE EVER SEEN. THE VIDEOS ARE EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINING. PLEASE CONTINUE THE GREAT WORK. LOVE FROM AMERICA. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks mate!!
I can't believe we've finally made it to the end. It feels like we've always had cubane on the brain and now it's going to be over. What will we even do now?
Uhm... Octanitrocubane, of course!
Tetrahedrane
Explode it?
Cubraine
Tom have you considered doing more gold chemistry to write off your investment into the post apocalyptic economy? Or do you hate gold because yellow?
I swear gold bar is tax free anyway?
I got two metals more expensive than gold recently! Will do some chemistry with them soon. But unsure if they will have good value in the post-apocalypse? As they don't look as cool as gold?
Do they taste better than gold?
Nile just dropped an hour long video on purple gold.
He’s become a gold chemist which is why I made my original comment lol
Australians having to celebrate Christmas in the middle of summer sounds like a raw deal if you ask me. I move that the southern hemisphere gets to celebrate Christmas in June.
Christmas in the middle of summer is so good. A super long day, sunshine for all of it, you just sit around outside in the shade and eat food.. fantastic
@@ExtractionsAndIre ever since I moved to the Midwest from the perpetual oven that is Texas, I get a little sad when there's no snow on Christmas morning. I needs it
@@beefgoat80 Last year we had 6ft of snow and it was like -30C (-22F) this year it almost felt like spring. In the positives with no snow, it was really quite nice. (I live in Canada)
It's so good dude, picture it like 4'th of July but with presents.
This series has been an unbridled success when rewatched as "making the highest quality tar"
At 16:20 we are introduced to a "Coldfinger". The least known James Bond villain.
Biochemistry also has zinc fingers which sounds like an even shittier Bond villain.
"Confirmed via enema analysis."
That's dedication.
i'd like to hope that at this point chemiolis is having a crisis of identity where he's no longer sure how to pronounce his own channel name anymore
He's Dutch, pronouncing things weirdly is second nature to him.
@@hammerth1421how to synthetize a clog
@@petrkryze made me guffaw
From the pool to tar to less tar to even more tar to cube. What a journey!
Watching the evolution of Tom as a scientist alongside the cube is very inspiring. Long live the cube!
Just finished watching Neil make purple gold. Time to watch Aussie-man try to make cubane..... again. (again)
Always awesome to see the CUBE project progress. As a microbiologist seeing someone spin a Eppendorf tube (at 4:45) not with the hinge out, just hurts my soul on a deep level
Wait there's a correct alignment of the epi tubes?
@@defenestrated23I do a lot of nuclei isolations. I use a similar centrifuge. As it is a fixed rotor (as opposed to swinging bucket), I always place the hinge facing out so I know where my nuclei pellet is. I then aspirate from the opposite side so I don’t suck up all my hard work
@@happycamper4thewin is more a question of habit; i am a molecular biologist and i don't really care where i put the hinge as long as the pellet is visible; when is not visible will add some inert stuff to see the pellet. I usually do this for microRNA extraction with glycogen (molecular biolology grade of course). We all have our OCD habits in the lab; trust me, molecular biology being something between science and magic we have many superstitions.
@@Robocop-qe7le lol, yep! I am a molecular biologist and I have mild to moderate OCD. I have my routines and do things “my way” but I think having OCD works to my benefit in the lab. I am just a sucker for routine and consistency 🤷🏻♀️
I'm glad your centrifuge wasn't totally munted. Excellent find, it's good that you rescued that.
Congratulations, you have successfully made tar (and some cubane dicarboxylate dimethyl ester)!
Ah what a reasonable purification, perfect for putting off sleeping
8:57 Easiest way to get methanol: Go to the local hobby shop and buy a gallon of RC fuel. Ideally, you'll buy FAI fuel, which is 80% methanol and 20% castor oil. Distill the methanol from the fuel and there ya go. If you can't find FAI fuel, any brew of glow fuel will work, but they'll have synthetic oils, nitromethane, anti-foaming agents in them as well. FAI fuel is, by the rules of a governing body for competition with certain model aircraft, ONLY methanol and castor oil.
You may also be able to bip down to a speed shop and just buy straight methanol. A lot of guys flying/driving/sailing glow powered RCs will do this alongside buying their own nitro and castor to mix up their own fuels. I know that's the case here in America, may also be viable Down Under? Not sure. The hobby shop route is the most reliable and universal route to getting methanol outside of a chemical supply house. Not a 'hardware store', per se, but it's close enough. Fits the spirit of things anyawy.
Yoda man !
The yellow bottles of heet which are sold as water removers are 100% methanol idk if they have them in Australia but that's always my methanol source when I need a bit it's like $2-3 for 12 ounces which if you need a lot probably isn't as cheap as buying in bulk online but I only usually need like 24-36 ounces and since it's sold at Walmart and pretty much anywhere that has an auto parts section including home Depot/ace hardware I can get it and be home in like 5 minutes
Edit: I just saw he mentioned it in the video already lol
That is the hardest and most expensive way to get methanol. Find your local drag strip, They'll sell you pails, drums, or even fill an approved can. I've been using water/methanol injection in my cars since 2005.
@@garrettmancuso4417 Drag strips are not as reliable as grabbing a jug of FAI fuel from a hobby shop. Not every country has the racing scene America does. And, hell, I live in Nashville and I can't even do that. Model aircraft and the hobby shops supporting them are much more ubiquitous than drag racing.
I also happen to do the RC thing anyway so I literally have like 6-7 gallons of model engine fuel just lying about as it is.
@@noodlelynoodle. Homey explicitely said he can't get those in Aus.
Column chromatography is the standard method of purification because it’s fast and requires little thought-good when you need to purify 3 reactions a day. Older methods of purification take careful planning and skilled execution-much cooler to see on TH-cam! Great work, impressive to do some pretty sensitive chemistry from the hardware store.
There it is! Cubane 2023 was promised and it was delivered! 🎉
Congrats on finally finishing this series!
I wonder if that buckyball molecule can be synthesized from readily-available chemicals...
New Nile red video yesterday and now a new Cubans episode?!!! Good times
also Nurdrage uploaded a video a few days ago!
i think sreetips uploads on more days than not, chemistry enjoyers are eating good on youtube
I've loved this series and it's great to see it come to a victorious conclusion! Chemistry is sort of black magic to me, and your honest, somewhat bumbling, and "behind the scenes" approach to me makes it a lot more humanized. And very entertaining! It's comforting to know, as I bang my head against my hacked-together simulations violating conservation of energy for the umpteenth time, that other professional and very smart scientists are experiencing the same thing in their own field.
I love the pan up at 10:48. Really emphasizes exactly where all those toxic methanol vapors are ending up.
Is the cubane in the room with us right now?
Congratulations Dr. Tom! Well done man, especially while finishing your schooling. So much fun to watch over the years.
Hell yeah brother. This man is the patron saint of unmedicated-adhd chemistry
Thank you for this entire series. I’ve never had such fun. You took over from my other life at age ten. I now do this exact same
thing as you but with OS design. Which is NOT a diss ! Just keep doing what you do, and so will I :)
The ethyl acetate is something one can synthesize from just hard ware store chemicals. I was able to make some with just acetic acid from vinegar, baking soda, and sodium bisulfate. Then one just reacts that with high purity ethanol, which can be purchased from liquor stores as ever clear, at least in America.
My state made the 95% stuff illegal a few years back. It's super annoying but a good excuse yo run by the liquor store when I leave the state.
As a molecular biologist, seeing that centrifuge makes me feel ill. That thing is FOUL 💀
So the wild animals living in the lab are ok I take it? 🙃
@@TheWebstaffthose are assistants
I love that all his equipment is vile
I was 100% expecting it to be one of the hand crank ones with how he was talking about it lol
Welcome to Extractions & Ire!! First time??
Sir I must say that this has been a comical experience to make an obscure chemical
going through that many failures and STILL KEEPING AT IT = you'll make the best of teachers one day, you'll have seen it all
YAY!!! This is a better series than the Nescafe ads from the 80's...
😂😂😂😂I frigging remember them!!😅😅
DItto...@@user-dc8em3ou2z
so proud you managed to make it to the end of this project its been amazing , iv watched every episode as it came out , yes the yield wasn't astounding , yes it was yellow and had every intention of just up n vanishing by wind but all in all was amazing to watch and learn about and thank for sticking with it dude and teaching me along the way , what a frickin cool molecule
What I've learned from this actually seems like a good lesson if it ends up being correct:
When extracting and isolating, getting a thick tar is a sign you're going to be foaming at the mouth down the line at the seemingly-limitless amounts of cleanings and extractions you have done and need to continue doing.
Fun series, glad you got SOME sort of crystal from it.
"always good to see the obvious things work"
I don't do much chemistry myself, but love to see that that is a universal feeling across fields
2 questions:
1. What's the yield % based on expected and actual
2. Could you eat the cubane.
Holy shit 3 years in the making 😮 i remember the start of this series when I was writing up my PhD, since then I've been made redundant from one job and been in another for like 18 months 🤣😅
the "its been sitting here for a couple days" followed by the "what could i do" as i look at the most breakingbad looking lab setup proves that Tom is just anti-Nile. They both do the same level of crazy shit, but one of them gets a 99.9995% extraction rate, while the other gets a 10.9995% extraction rate ... but its still cool. The amount you get is just to flex, doing it in the first place is what people watch for.
That chemist's fans are called Mouth Pipetters
Explosions and Fire/ Extractions and Ire fans are called patient
This was a delight to start my day with. It truly is a christmas miracle!
A new E&I video is the only thing I wanted for Christmas ❤
COLDFINGER - it's the glass with the icy touch.
Also, at 21:05, someone let Tom loose with power tools again.
Seriously though, good work dude, you got there!
CUBANE 2023! you have done it!
I like this guy (I'm in your walls)
The thumbnail says final, but the cubane series will never be final. You're in denial.
Cube is forever.
He didn't even nitrate it!
Still as painful to watch as a horrifying car crash, but i love the presentation. Impressive you're still beating that dead decaying synthesis horse.
In Canada you can buy methanol pretty easily as its sold under the name "methyl hydrate"
It's sold in similar tins to what you would buy kerosene in.
However a number of other chemicals that you use that are just available at your hardware store are just not available in Canada right now. So country to country hardware store chemistry vastly changes
Methanol is OTC in the US. You can buy it in bulk.
You can also frac distill it from windshield wiper fluid 😅
Meanwhile Holden Utes are banned. 🤷
@@khaitomretro We ban a lot of stupid stuff.
If you had to do everything again, would you be faster?
I surely wouldn’t be slower!!
Wow! What a ride! From tar and yellow to yellow tar.
Watching these videos and imagining that it's actually a goblin doing the chemistry is hilarious. I see it as you having captured this little green fella, make the parts of the video where you show your face, then just put some weird flesh coloured suit on the goblin with a gopro and tell it to go ham
Hey have you ever considered making dichlorotetrazine? I think you'd like it; the process is kind of insane in a cool way (basically you need guanidine, hydrazine, acetylacetone, chlorine gas and maybe some isoamyl nitrite). The final step is a really neat sublimation where you get this pretty orange/red powder out at the end. It's nice, And the NMR is spectacular (carbon NMR anyway ;) ). I mean, red organic shit and not a proton in sight haha
I have a question. I've been thrilled by this series from episode 1. You just kept spewing out episodes one by one with no pause inbetween and without ever letting the product of your previous episode decay or forgetting what you were doing. How did you manage to keep this neckbreaking and consistent pace?
The Art of Tar & Yellow chemistry made it all the worthwhile.
Always an immediate watch. Happy holidays, all!
Congratulations! This has been a fun series to follow. Thanks Tom!
As social beings, we're all supposed to react to a situation the same way. When one doesn't, it strikes fear in the hearts of those who follow the crowd. They don't know what to expect from that person, they aren't behaving “normal”.
Maybe they're a psychopath, or maybe they're so removed from the dualistic illusion that it doesn't affect them like it “should”. Since most people can't tell the difference between enlightenment and mental illness, it gets pretty scary.
Uncertainty is terrifying, until it's not.
Cubane episode 18. It's about time E&F admits his on again off again fiery relationship is from love not hate.
Don't hide from your feelings for cubane. ❤
The only channel that consistently delivers masterclasses in tars, gunks, mucks, sludges, filths, scunges, dirts, residues,
Started watching this series because I had never heard of cubane, and hardware store chemistry is right up my alley.
Still don't know what cubane is, but I know what it looks like now, "tar like." Thanks for the adventure mate, it's been a ride to watch
Hmm, considering the tiny size and general innocent look of that teensy-weensy spider; anywhere else in the world it's probably called something cute and harmless like a Money Spider or something like that. But knowing this is Australia, where literally EVERYTHING is trying every day to make you die horribly, it's probably called something like the Eight-Fanged Venomous Bastard Spider and if it even LOOKS at you too hard it'll immediately make your bollocks explode or something equally terrible 🤔
Did you really open with "has all been quite reasonable"? I'm concerned for your mental health if after all this you still think any of it was "quite reasonable".
Yeah that’s just a straight up lie haha
the huge condenser is so goofy when you're using it for a thimble of cubane
Thanks for sharing great to see you are still kicking have a great Christmas
Excellent work mate, love your channels and determination 😁
I JUST WATCHED CUBANE VIDEOS THIS MORNING AND NOW YOURE RELEASING A CUBANE VIDEO!! HYYYYPPPEEEEE 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Yaaaay!!!!! This is so awesome to see, also feels weird it's over. I can't wait for the wrapup video.
I love how we all are skipping over the glassware modification. Like, first off what god forsaken cold finger fits basically nothing, and then the true tom style of "well if i take a dremmel to this piece here, and slap these pieces together it should probably hopefully work out alright"
"Nothing is ever perfect, nothing is even ever very good, but um we'll settle with okay." This is my new favorite quote.
Big congrats mate, it's odd to see it finally end. Here's to making more and the followup!
"Nothing is ever perfect, nothing is even ever very good" has such a Terry Patchett ring to it.
Congratulations! This is quite an accomplishment. I love your videos, please keep them coming!
I lost it at 1:43 when it zoomed in on the cubane tar and it's just labelled "CUBE"
1:18 I dig the shout out to the Column Chromatography Crowd… I call it C^3 … Happy New year big dog !
The journey! Like a train ride from Moscow to Minsk. Long and unforgettable! As I watch more of your videos, I am picking up "lab craft" from you. I do simple distillations for essential oils (absolutely not a chemist) and I pick up little tricks you do with funnels (like laying them inside a beaker and filtering stuff). So if you are ever lost for a topic, perhaps a best of good lab craft, and worst of too....for us novices! Or do nothing. That's typically what I do when people tell me stuff. Thanks for the vids!
In searching for methanol, realistically windshield washing fluid is typically just straight methanol with only a couple additives as far as I know. So you could always just distill it off easily