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Introducing the contestants of the 2014 Orgathlon. Nicole...Nicole?
Yao! Liz! The prize is a Klondike Bar.
The objective is to pass all of the checkpoints where you will be asked grueling orgo questions.
All right! On your mark, get set, go! Oh my first orgo question.
Oh, I ripped the question, oops. Okay, I must fill in the reagent.
So the first question is a hydroboration oxidation, right?
So the reagents. One - BH3, two - hydrogen peroxide and OH
minus to achieve Non-Markovnikov syn addition. This is dihydroxylation including one - Osmium
O4 and two - H2O2. Ha, I've passed my first checkpoint.
My mom told me that I can do anything. Liza, Liza what happened?
Let's leave her, we gotta go. Okay, she'll forgive me she probably watched
too much Netflix anyway. Come on, we gotta finish the race!
We left her behind, do you think she'll be a problem to us now?
Knowing Liza, she's the most evil and devious person I've ever met. We must bring her down.
Let's go and defeat her now. Oh Magnesium! What the fluorine! I'm in a race!
Oh no! I lost my metro card!
Ha, you always do! Noooooooo.....
I have to buy a metro card. A second question!
Okay, pKa of, that's an alcohol. 16. pKa of ... that's an amine! Okay, the pKa
is 40. I get to skip a checkpoint, ha those suckers!
She caught up to us, what are we going to do now?
Where do you want to head? We're both freezing, so Starbucks it is.
All right, let's go to Starbucks. Is the train here yet?
NO. YES!
We're here, do you know where Starbucks is? Yeah, yeah it's on Brighton...wait a minute,
where is Starbucks? SIXTH, AHEM.
Oh look, another orgo question. So here, we have to find the configuration
of this molecule. So bromine gets first priority because it
has the highest atomic number. Chlorine gets second priority because it has
the second highest atomic number. And carbon gets the third priority.
To figure out whether it's R or S, point your thumb in the direction of H.
In this case, the H is pointing up. Let's try left hand first.
Nope, because it's not 1-3-2. So let's try right hand.
It works because it's 1-2-3, therefore it must be R.
After you. Alliances, alliances, I'm gonna dominate this
competition. This is your game maker speaking. You missed
a checkpoint. Ha ha. This must be the final checkpoint.
O3, must be ozone, must be ozonolysis. First let's draw two oxygens between the double
bond that will signify the aldehyde positions. The double bond breaks and we must have two
aldehydes with 6 carbons. And that's your product.
I'm sorry. I forgive you for leaving me behind.
Congratulations, ladies, but I regret to inform you that there is no Klondike Bar.
NOOOOOOOO! Uhh, you're in last place.
How does that happen? This is so much fun.
99 bottles of ethanol on the wall, 99 bottles of ethanol.
That was really bad... 3 bottles of ethanol on the wall, 3 bottles
of ethanol, you take one down, pass it around. Yes! Ow!
There's someone coming in. Siri, where's the beach?