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December 21, 2011
Chemistry, The Movie!
Posted by Derek
For some comic relief, here's a list that was going around on Twitter: Chemistry, The Movie. What titles would you suggest? To give you the idea, some of the ones that have already come up include "Boron Free", "The Wizard of Osmium", and "The Bench Connection". More at the link (and on Twitter, #ChemistryTheMovie), if you can stand it. But if you can't take, for example, "Weekend at Swernie's", you'd be advised to click somewhere else (!)
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1. Vader on December 21, 2011 10:03 AM writes...
"Lord of the Rings" doesn't even need to be tweaked.
Permalink to Comment2. canchem on December 21, 2011 10:19 AM writes...
Hoodfellas has to be my favourite of that list.
Permalink to Comment3. Not rushed off my feet on December 21, 2011 10:41 AM writes...
Buchi Nights, Gunfight at the OK Corey and The Boc-y Horror Picture Show spring to mind, but I agree Hoodfellas works on many levels...
Permalink to Comment4. Hap on December 21, 2011 10:47 AM writes...
Final Deprotection 1-5?
Permalink to Comment5. marcello on December 21, 2011 10:54 AM writes...
"Breaking Bad" is out there already....
Permalink to CommentI congratulate previous entries. I always knew chemists were a creative bunch!
6. MTK on December 21, 2011 11:17 AM writes...
In grad school my labmates and I came up with a movie we called "Top Beaker".
It's the story of a highly talented, but undisciplined, renegade chemist nicknamed Reflux working in one of the top total synthesis groups in the world. As good as Reflux is, however, he's carrying some personal baggage in the form of his father, a hotshot chemist himself who died in a fiery lab accident, causing him to be somewhat reckless.
Each day Reflux and his fellow students (folks like LC, COSY, and Pipette) get in the lab and try to do outdo each other in the highly competitive environment where egos are as big as the natural products. Reflux is continually on the edge ("Gutsiest reaction I ever saw, Reflux.") Of course there's the attractive female biochemistry assistant prof. that's part of the picture too.
OK, you get the picture and can fill in the other plot elements yourself. (Don't forget about the soundtrack though. "Take the Methyl Group Away" and "Highway to the Metastable Zone" could be big.)
Permalink to Comment7. Molecule on December 21, 2011 11:38 AM writes...
Back to the Retro
Permalink to Comment8. Bond on December 21, 2011 11:41 AM writes...
A romantic chemical tragedy,
Permalink to Comment´The Breaking Bond...`
9. Anonymous on December 21, 2011 11:43 AM writes...
The Boron Identity, Supremacy and Ultimatum
Permalink to Comment10. Anonymous on December 21, 2011 11:45 AM writes...
The Boron Identity, Supremacy and Ultimatum
Permalink to CommentFlash Gordon
The Girl with the Argon Tattoo
11. itinerant on December 21, 2011 11:55 AM writes...
Another one that needs no change, "Flash Gordon" starring the great Clark-my friends call me Gable-Still
Permalink to Comment12. provocateur on December 21, 2011 11:56 AM writes...
solution impossible
Permalink to Comment13. provocateur on December 21, 2011 11:57 AM writes...
solution impossible
Permalink to Comment14. itinerant on December 21, 2011 11:57 AM writes...
Let's not forget the recent Tin Tin
Permalink to Comment15. DC on December 21, 2011 12:03 PM writes...
In the spirit of increased lipophilicity trends and the continued CETP inhibitors saga, how about....."Grease"
Permalink to Comment16. pete on December 21, 2011 12:54 PM writes...
"Raging Butyl"
Permalink to Comment"Citizen (Al) Kane"
"Murder on the Trans Uranium Express"
"One Day in the Life of Vladimir Markovnikov"
"Fast Times at Lithium High"
17. A Nonny Mouse on December 21, 2011 12:54 PM writes...
Agent Triple Bond (license to spill) starring in such classics as "Cold Finger", "Dr No-Postdoc" and "Carbon Allotropes are Forever".
Permalink to Comment18. jackson on December 21, 2011 1:22 PM writes...
If you try to watch the "movie" on the site where the list is, be aware that you will be downloanding a "fake app attack adware downloader" from the site.
Permalink to Comment19. Fred on December 21, 2011 2:22 PM writes...
Xenon, Warrior Princess.
From the Rare Earth to the Moon
A Clock Reaction Orange
Mourning Becomes Electrolysis
Permalink to Comment20. anon on December 21, 2011 2:41 PM writes...
"Broke-flask Mountain"
"Parr Wars: The Revenge of the Sieves"
"Belle Epoxide"
"The China Syndrome" (no tweaking needed"
Permalink to Comment21. Mutant Dragon on December 21, 2011 3:39 PM writes...
I'm likin' "Hoodfellas" -- just classic!
Permalink to Comment22. Ortep on December 21, 2011 3:56 PM writes...
The Fast and the Furanious
Huckeltheory Finn
Djerassic Park
Carbon the Barbarian
Permalink to Comment23. Hap on December 21, 2011 4:06 PM writes...
The Taking of Phys Chem 1,2,3 (probably a comedy)
Permalink to CommentWhat To Do at the Denver ACS When You're Dead
24. anon on December 21, 2011 4:32 PM writes...
A Tale of Two Moieties
Permalink to Comment25. anon on December 21, 2011 5:12 PM writes...
A Tale of Two Moieties
Permalink to Comment26. Hartwig on December 21, 2011 5:49 PM writes...
The trifluoromethylator
Permalink to Comment27. Barnowl on December 21, 2011 5:56 PM writes...
Baran Returns
Permalink to CommentBaran Forever
Baran Begins
28. Anonymous on December 21, 2011 6:45 PM writes...
A Bridgehead too far
Permalink to Comment29. sublimed on December 21, 2011 7:04 PM writes...
Lawrencium of Arabia
Permalink to Comment30. Danishef on December 21, 2011 8:48 PM writes...
I Am Sam
Permalink to Comment31. Anonymous BMS Researcher on December 21, 2011 9:00 PM writes...
Indiana Jones and the Crystal Structure
Permalink to Comment32. daen on December 21, 2011 9:36 PM writes...
Pretty in Zinc
Permalink to CommentLost in Titration
33. biku on December 21, 2011 9:38 PM writes...
Solution Impossible
Permalink to Comment34. pete on December 21, 2011 9:55 PM writes...
"Gone With The Rotovap"
Permalink to Comment"Ferris Buchner's Day of Funnel"
35. Gontraf on December 21, 2011 11:18 PM writes...
Clockwork Indigo
March Attack (6th Ed.)
Permalink to Comment36. WB on December 22, 2011 12:32 AM writes...
Statin-grad
Permalink to Comment37. dearieme on December 22, 2011 5:40 AM writes...
The Cruel C.
Permalink to Comment38. Lactone Man on December 22, 2011 6:12 AM writes...
Dr Nitrous Oxide
Permalink to CommentThe creature from the black lactone
Me myself and fullerene
Lawrencium of arabinose
Anion Hall/Annie Halogen
A street carbon named desire
Taxol driver
M*e*S*H*
Synthesis in seattle
Bugsy Malone pair of electrons
The quiet mannose
Cation on a hot tin roof
The lion the witch and the glovebox
39. NS 29 on December 22, 2011 8:42 AM writes...
GATTACA
Permalink to Comment40. qetzal on December 22, 2011 9:49 AM writes...
Schindler's Wisp?
Permalink to Comment41. Josh on December 22, 2011 10:54 AM writes...
Americium Pie
Permalink to CommentRaiders of the Lost Quark
V for Vanadium
Night of the Living DEAD
The English Patent
The Maltose Falcon
Requiem for a Drammamine
42. Anonymous on December 22, 2011 11:31 AM writes...
Entropy at the Gates
Taurine, Taurine, Taurine!
Revenge of the Cis-
U-238 (needs no tweaking.)
Permalink to Comment43. Anonymous on December 22, 2011 11:44 AM writes...
"Romancing the Off-shoring"?
Permalink to Comment44. Anonymous on December 22, 2011 11:47 AM writes...
"Romancing the Off-shoring"?
Permalink to Comment45. Sili on December 22, 2011 1:11 PM writes...
The Story of O
Permalink to Comment46. Curious Wavefunction on December 22, 2011 2:42 PM writes...
Stir Wars: The Lactam Menace
Elution Impossible
This Is Chiral Tap
Stench of Soman
Catalyze This
Catalyze That
The Quiet Americium
When Harry Met Salicylaldehyde
Quench Me If You Can
Grease...
Permalink to Comment47. KillBill on December 22, 2011 6:01 PM writes...
MacMillan and Wife.
Oh, wait...Never mind
Permalink to Comment48. Baltic on December 22, 2011 7:05 PM writes...
The Shawshank Reduction
Permalink to CommentFerrous Gump
The Silanes of the Lambs
Saving Private Ion
Million Molar Baby
49. Taffy on December 23, 2011 11:24 PM writes...
Buckyball!
Permalink to Comment50. Taffy on December 23, 2011 11:30 PM writes...
Starring Brad PittCon
Permalink to Comment51. MEL on January 2, 2012 4:05 PM writes...
The 39 Steps??
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