Description acceptable. A reaction that increases this value is named for its hydrated imidazoline intermediate formed in basic methanol. The high dilution principle recommends synthesizing molecules with large values for this property at low input concentration to suppress concatemers (“con-CAT-uh-mers”). Carbyne cations like chloro·diazirine increase this value in a strategy popularized by Mark Levin for diversifying pharmacophores (“far-MACK-uh-fores”). Büchner’s carbene reaction increases this value for arenes. Two of camphor’s (*) three values for this property increase after a Baeyer–Villiger oxidation. Step-changes to this property are a common goal of skeletal editing. The Beckmann rearrangement in nylon synthesis increases this value by one, forming caprolactam from cyclohexane. For 10 points, name this geometric property that can exceed 30 atoms in macrocycles. ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 12 | 100% | 8% | 42% | 103.67 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Wang | BHSU X | Floridovician | 52 | -5 |
| Dan Ni | Enjoying the Hole Experience | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 61 | -5 |
| Kai Smith | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | It's not X, but... defenders | 62 | 15 |
| John Marvin | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 79 | 10 |
| Adam Fine | Halifax Shipping Services | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 87 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | The RAND Coöperation | 96 | -5 |
| Billy Busse | BHSU B | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 96 | 10 |
| Iain Carpenter | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 98 | -5 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | Broken Socal Scene | 98 | -5 |
| Jeremy Tsai | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 102 | 10 |
| Jason Cheng | Broken Socal Scene | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 116 | 10 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Floridovician | BHSU X | 117 | 10 |
| Natan Holtzman | The RAND Coöperation | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | 117 | 10 |
| Raul Passement | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 117 | 10 |
| Cyrus Zhou | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 117 | 0 |
| Coby Tran | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 117 | 10 |
| Munir Siddiqui | Big is moving to Evanston! | Do re mi fa serving negs | 117 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 117 | 10 |