Can anyone help a poor physicist understand this very chemical meme? 😅
Trippy ass chemical vaguely resembles biblically accurate angel.
Let's pretend I understand the chemistry part... could somebody explain the biblically accurate angel part?
I thought that might be the case.
Cool. Thanks!
As an even poorer look-upper of shit online, Wikipedia says that it is widely used as a catalyst for palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions. That’s as far as my look-uppification gets me with this one.
It's very surface level.
Biblically accurate palladium coordination complex
Tetra = 4
Kis = copies of the same thing
Triphenyl = 3 phenyl groups (the rings) attached to the same atom (Phosphorus)
Phosphine = 3 R groups (molecule fragments like phenyl, methyl (CH3) etc) attached to Phosphorus
So there are 4 triphenylphosphine ligands attached to Palladium. Each triphenylphosphine has 3 phenyl groups attached to the same Phosphorus. Phenyl groups are basically rings of Carbon with all but one of the 6 Carbons attached to Hydrogen. The remaining Carbon is what attaches to the Phosphorus
Nice use of the multiocular O.
It is most likely that Multiocular O was a result of a writer’s attempt at depicting how many eyes the seraphim they were describing had.
Can anyone help a poor physicist understand this very chemical meme? 😅
Trippy ass chemical vaguely resembles biblically accurate angel.
Let's pretend I understand the chemistry part... could somebody explain the biblically accurate angel part?
I thought that might be the case.
Cool. Thanks!
As an even poorer look-upper of shit online, Wikipedia says that it is widely used as a catalyst for palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions. That’s as far as my look-uppification gets me with this one.
It's very surface level.
Biblically accurate palladium coordination complex
Tetra = 4
Kis = copies of the same thing
Triphenyl = 3 phenyl groups (the rings) attached to the same atom (Phosphorus)
Phosphine = 3 R groups (molecule fragments like phenyl, methyl (CH3) etc) attached to Phosphorus
So there are 4 triphenylphosphine ligands attached to Palladium. Each triphenylphosphine has 3 phenyl groups attached to the same Phosphorus. Phenyl groups are basically rings of Carbon with all but one of the 6 Carbons attached to Hydrogen. The remaining Carbon is what attaches to the Phosphorus