This element is found at the center of two interlocked rings in Jean-Pierre Sauvage (“suh-VAZH’s”) first synthesized catenane. This element’s chloride regenerates the palladium catalyst in the Wacker process. This element catalyzes a cycloaddition that Barry Sharpless called the “cream of the crop” of click chemistry. This metal’s sulfate is present in Benedict’s and Fehling’s reagents, which are used to detect reducing sugars. Lithium and this metal are found in Gilman reagents. This metal’s fully filled 3d orbitals and partially filled 4s orbital make it the second-lightest element to violate the Aufbau principle. This metal produces a characteristic blue-green color in a flame test. For 10 points, name this metal alloyed with zinc in brass, with atomic number 29 and symbol Cu. ■END■
| 2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 46.33 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis | 2024-11-16 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 92.10 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 93.40 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 103.00 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 105.00 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 129.00 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 74.00 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 63.33 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 60.00 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 58.50 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 91.63 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 94.40 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 75.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max Neal | Harvard A | Carabrandeis | 30 | -5 |
| Arthur Gayden | UChicago A | SIUE A | 32 | 10 |
| Yixi Yang | Yale A | Brandeises Brew | 38 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley A | Stanford M | 41 | 10 |
| Yahwanth Bajji | Michigan A | CWRU C | 41 | 10 |
| Aswath Karai | Michigan State A | Michigan State C | 41 | 10 |
| Katherine Lei | Stanford L | Berkeley B | 44 | 10 |
| Derrick Liu | Hopkins B | Columbia B | 44 | -5 |
| Samarth Ram | UChicago B | Purdue B | 44 | 10 |
| Emmett Cho | UChicago D | Purdue D | 44 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UCF B | 45 | 10 |
| Srikar Venkatesan | Penn B | Haverford A | 46 | 10 |
| Geoffrey Wu | Columbia A | Rutgers A | 46 | 10 |
| Mitchell Hackett | Central Oklahoma | Iowa | 47 | 10 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Imperial B | 47 | 10 |
| Matt Schiavone | Northwestern A | WashU D | 49 | 10 |
| Justin Lee | Imperial A | Oxford B | 53 | 10 |
| Zosia Mikolajczuk | Southampton A | Warwick B | 53 | 10 |
| Abby Smith | Berkeley C | Stanford A | 54 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennesse A | Auburn B | 54 | -5 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Michigan D | 54 | 10 |
| Faiz Ahmed | Birmingham | Cambridge C | 58 | 10 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech B | Emory A | 59 | 10 |
| Vishal Kanigicherla | Penn A | Lehigh A | 59 | 10 |
| Benny Feldman | UChicago C | WashU C | 60 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Bristol A | 60 | 10 |
| Peter Nelson | Yale B | Boston University A | 61 | 10 |
| Dylan Randall | Ole Miss | Vassar A | 61 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Texas A | 61 | -5 |
| Alessandro d'Attanasio | Cambridge D | Warwick A | 61 | 10 |
| Alan Lee | CWRU B | Ohio State C | 65 | 10 |
| Sovannjet Lim | MIT A | Tufts B | 67 | -5 |
| Andres Cordoba | Yale C | Brown A | 70 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Tennesse B | 70 | 10 |
| Teigue Kelly | Penn State A | Rutgers C | 70 | 10 |
| Enina Edosomwan | CWRU A | Kenyon B | 70 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | UF B | Florida Tech A | 70 | -5 |
| Cindy | BU B | Diamond Brandeis | 74 | 10 |
| Jackson Hopper | Mississippi State | Texas B | 76 | 10 |
| Jason Thieu | Michigan State B | Michigan B | 80 | 10 |
| Chloe Wei | McGill E | Vassar B | 81 | 10 |
| Amelia Rees | Durham B | Vanderbilt | 84 | 10 |
| Shawn Jarrard | UF A | Florida Tech B | 85 | 10 |
| Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech D | Tusculum A | 88 | -5 |
| Richard Lin | Amherst A | A Brandeis Supreme | 90 | -5 |
| Peter Scully | Tufts A | Northeastern A | 97 | 10 |
| Shawn Richardson | Clemson A | Emory B | 97 | 10 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | Clark A | 98 | 10 |
| Christopher Joseph | Notre Dame | Purdue C | 98 | 10 |
| Linus Luu | Cambridge B | Durham A | 98 | 10 |
| Carter McLean | Princeton A | Bard A | 102 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | Florida State University A | UF F | 102 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh | Manchester | 102 | -5 |
| Henry Jameson | LSE B | Bristol B | 102 | -5 |
| Michael Zhou | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech C | 103 | 10 |
| Ethan Altshul | Emory B | South Carolina A | 105 | 10 |
| Francis Bernhardt | Miami | Indiana B | 113 | 10 |
| Ethan Young | Williams A | Bowdoin B | 114 | -5 |
| Elle Lee | NYU A | WUSTL A | 115 | 10 |
| Aaron Garcia | Arkansas | Colorado College | 115 | 10 |
| Nathan Easow | Manchester | Edinburgh | 116 | 10 |
| Athena Shadden | Texas A | Missouri | 117 | 10 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | UF C | UF E | 119 | 10 |
| Francis Powell | Tufts B | MIT A | 120 | 10 |
| TJ Pickering | Auburn B | Tennesse A | 120 | 10 |
| Jacob Taylor | Bristol B | LSE B | 120 | 10 |
| Graham Lucas | Bowdoin B | Williams A | 121 | 10 |
| Andrew Messersmith | A Brandeis Supreme | Amherst A | 121 | 10 |
| Kaitlyn Farrin | Carabrandeis | Harvard A | 121 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum A | Georgia Tech D | 121 | 10 |
| Patrick Rivas-Giorgi | Columbia B | Hopkins B | 121 | 10 |
| Brynn Jones | Oregon State | Texas D | 121 | 10 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Florida Tech A | UF B | 121 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum A | Georgia Tech A | 129 | 10 |