Comment by mikeash
9 years ago
"If the paper weren’t laid out in complete grammatical sentences and published in JACS, you’d swear it was the work of a violent lunatic."
I've seen this article before, but I will never get tired of reading it again.
9 years ago
"If the paper weren’t laid out in complete grammatical sentences and published in JACS, you’d swear it was the work of a violent lunatic."
I've seen this article before, but I will never get tired of reading it again.
His article on chlorine trifluoride was an absolute classic as well, and some of his articles make me very glad I don't live anywhere near Dr. Klapötke's lab.
The FOOF article pointed out one other nasty problem, namely, how easy it is to game search systems:
"But I do note that if you run the structure through SciFinder, it comes out with a most unexpected icon that indicates a commercial supplier. That would be the Hangzhou Sage Chemical Company. They offer it in 100g, 500g, and 1 kilo amounts, which is interesting, because I don’t think a kilo of dioxygen difluoride has ever existed. Someone should call them on this – ask for the free shipping, and if they object, tell them Amazon offers it on this item. Serves ’em right. Morons."
Given how often I come across spammy search results in Google, I guess I shouldn't be too surprised.
Yeah, the (usually Chinese) spammy chemical suppliers have an interesting selection. I've seen several offering to sell you 99% pure isopropane, which is a bit like offering a RESTful service that keeps track of state on the server.
Somebody really needs to place an order for some of this stuff and see what happens.
Given that a number of tests listed beforehand are with compounds that have their own "won't work with" articles, yeah one do wonder about the sanity of the chemist behind the paper.
> very glad I don't live anywhere near Dr. Klapötke's lab.
I do. If I ever hear a huge explosion followed by a smoke column north of the city center, I know what my first suspicion will be.