Organic Chemistry Music Video "Resistant to Base"

An organic chemistry-themed music video parodying Robert Palmer's 1985 "Addicted to Love."Shot on Canon XL-1s (MiniDV) w/ Canon XL 5.5-88mm IS II 16X lens. Edited on Sony Vegas HD 6.***LYRICS***Your lights are on, but you're not homeYou're in the lab, working alone.Your synthesis is nearly doneJust add a chain to that carbon.You can't wait to alkylateBut first you must deprotonateYou add a mole of LDATo overcome that pKaWhoa, you like to think it will react with the stuff, oh yeahIt's closer to the truth to say you can't add enoughYou know you're gonna have to face it, it's resistant to base.You check pH, it's past fourteenYour stirring bar is dissolvingThe TLC shows no productsAnother mole and then reflux!With LDA, it won't reactButyllithium just might abstractThat hydrogen that won't obeyLe Chatelier's communiquéWhoa, you like to think it will react with the stuff, oh yeahIt's closer to the truth to say you can't add enoughYou know you're gonna have to face it, it's resistant to base.REFRAINMight as well face it, it's resistant to base. (x5)Your potassium t-butoxideAnd ammonium hydroxideYour KOH and hydrazinePush the pH beyond eighteenREFRAIN

Channel: Comedy
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: scottkj

Length: 03:55
Rating: 4.71
Views: 103889

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