Comment by mikeash
10 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.
10 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.