I do have quite a strong accent - in my experience, the auto-generated closed captions transcribe my words right most of the time, and when they don't, there's usually enough visual context to work out what it is that's being said
@@yorkshirechemist your accent is strong, but I think the actual issue is the microphone you’re using or something. The audio quality is muddy so it’s harder to understand your accent than if the audio was more crisp.
it is, thank you very much for pointing it out! funnily enough, the last error I made like this was consistently using the wrong name for a correct structure (bisulphonate instead of disulphonate) - using the correct name for the wrong structure is progress of sorts
and yet, it's totally well-behaved if it's handled properly to be fair, this is true of most chemicals, other than (e.g.) high-nitrogen nitrocellulose, tetraselenium tetranitride, and fulminating silver, which are all laws unto themselves
not really, no - in this case, it participates in an SN1 nucleophilic substitution the sulphuric acid protonates t-butyl alcohol at the alcohol group, and the alcohol group leaves as water, resulting in a t-butyl carbocation; this carbocation reacts with hydrogen peroxide to form t-butyl hydroperoxide
@@yorkshirechemist I don’t think I worded my question well. I meant to ask if the unique aspect of t-butyl hydro peroxide is that it can participate in decarboxylations in non polar solvents, whereas in polar solvents or water you could just use hydrogen peroxide?
I literally laughed out loud at "more badges than a punk rocker's jacket." Thanks for yet another amazing walk-through!
no worries!
This is probably my favorite new TH-cam channel for chemistry, that said the audio quality makes it very difficult to understand what is being said.
I do have quite a strong accent - in my experience, the auto-generated closed captions transcribe my words right most of the time, and when they don't, there's usually enough visual context to work out what it is that's being said
@@yorkshirechemist your accent is strong, but I think the actual issue is the microphone you’re using or something. The audio quality is muddy so it’s harder to understand your accent than if the audio was more crisp.
Small note: isn't that the structure for isobutyl sulfate at 1:50 not tert-butyl sulfate?a
it is, thank you very much for pointing it out!
funnily enough, the last error I made like this was consistently using the wrong name for a correct structure (bisulphonate instead of disulphonate) - using the correct name for the wrong structure is progress of sorts
That looks like an angry little chemical!
and yet, it's totally well-behaved if it's handled properly
to be fair, this is true of most chemicals, other than (e.g.) high-nitrogen nitrocellulose, tetraselenium tetranitride, and fulminating silver, which are all laws unto themselves
Does hydrogen peroxide perform the same function to acid chloride, but in a different solvent?
not really, no - in this case, it participates in an SN1 nucleophilic substitution
the sulphuric acid protonates t-butyl alcohol at the alcohol group, and the alcohol group leaves as water, resulting in a t-butyl carbocation; this carbocation reacts with hydrogen peroxide to form t-butyl hydroperoxide
@@yorkshirechemist I don’t think I worded my question well. I meant to ask if the unique aspect of t-butyl hydro peroxide is that it can participate in decarboxylations in non polar solvents, whereas in polar solvents or water you could just use hydrogen peroxide?
Another great video but really not sure how I feel about a Yorkshireman using the word, "passionately" 🤔
I needed another way to say "it burns like fuck" and was rapidly running out of adjectives
(also, I may have been less than sober when editing it)