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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KeBa" data-source="post: 6703634" data-attributes="member: 85781">Magic Acid  <img src="http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/magic.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Bicyclohexyl<img src="http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/bicycle.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />This molecule not only has a name that sounds like a bicycle, ironically it even looks like one too. In fact, the bicyclohexyl compound with isopropyl and methyl sidechains (2-isopropyl-3'-methylbicyclohexyl, shown in the diagram) looks even more like a bicycle. There is also tricyclene, but unfortunately its structure looks nothing like a tricycle.<img src="http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/bicyclo.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />TortuosineThis molecule is an alkaloid extracted from the plant Amaryllidaceae, but I bet it was extracted very sloooowwwllly. In fact, this naturally occurring organic compound and the following one (assoanine) had plant-derived names that were so compelling that Lee Flippin designed and executed total syntheses of them just for the fun of it.<img src="http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/tortuosine.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />NanoPutian Moleculestoday's award for the 'How did they possibly get a grant to do that?' paper, goes to the J. Org. Chem. article by Chanteau and Tour from Rice University in Texas. It concerns making anthropomorphic molecules - i.e. molecules that look like humans...but why anyone would want to do this I don't know... They have been named NanoPutians, after the little men from Lilliput in the book 'Gulliver's Travels'. They come in many forms - the basic building block is the NanoKid (shown right), and from this other variants can be made, such as NanoAthlete and NanoBaker.<img src="http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/nanoputians.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Barrelene<img src="http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/barrelene.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Studtite and Metastudtite<img src="http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/tonguestud.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Studtite isn't the glue which keeps tongue-studs into place, nor is it the secret formula for Hollywood male actors. It's actually a uranium mineral containing peroxide of formula (UO2)O2·4(H2O) formed by the radioactive decay of nuclear fuel or uranium ores. It occurs as white yellow needle-like crystals, and as a mineral it was named for Franz Edward Studt, a English prospector and geologist who was working in the Belgian Congo.<img src="http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/studtite.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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