Tertiary Butyllithium reacting with air, squirted from a syringe.
Tertiary Butyllithium reacting with air, squirted from a syringe.
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Wednesday, October 27, 2021
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Is it pronounced booty-lithium or butty-lithium?
And this is why our PI has banned tBuLi in our lab…
I was an undergrad when I started doing research in a chem lab. The first reaction I was doing by myself involved n-butyllithium (less reactive than tert-butyl lithium but still very reactive). Before I started the grad student I worked with made me look up and the story of the UCLA student who died working with butyllithium. When I did the reaction I was quite scared.
Source: https://youtu.be/u6MfZbCvPCw?t=55s
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What’s the shaking at the end?
What are you deprotinating?