Aha, good on you! And that's almost what tetraphenyl... etc is, but there are two double bonds in the five carbon ring (that's what the "dien" part means) and the functional group is a double-bonded oxygen, which is a ketone functional group when it's got carbons on both sides of it, hence the "one" :)
Yeah, there were about 5 other people who had to redo their experiment too, so I didn't feel like too much of an idiot. I think the problem was that we got such a tiny yield from the first synthesis that there was very little material and it was really easy to burn.
Chem lab is lots of fun when it's not frustrating the hell out of me :) But writing lab reports can take forEVER, meep. I totally hear ya there.
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Date: 2007-04-12 01:36 am (UTC)Yeah, there were about 5 other people who had to redo their experiment too, so I didn't feel like too much of an idiot. I think the problem was that we got such a tiny yield from the first synthesis that there was very little material and it was really easy to burn.
Chem lab is lots of fun when it's not frustrating the hell out of me :) But writing lab reports can take forEVER, meep. I totally hear ya there.