Question
Lab safety should be every chemist’s first priority! Answer the following about preventing accidents, for 10 points each.
[10e] The first line of defense includes PPE such as a lab coat, safety goggles, and gloves made out of this functional group, which consists of a carbon triple-bonded to a nitrogen.
ANSWER: nitriles [accept cyanides; accept cyano; prompt on CN; reject “isocyanides” or “isonitriles”]
[10h] The NIH and OSHA require the creation of these programs to protect employees from health hazards. These programs, which have a three-letter abbreviation, lay out waste management protocols and are used alongside Safety Data Sheets.
ANSWER: Chemical Hygiene Plans [or CHPs]
[10m] This chemist was not wearing safety glasses while examining condensed oxygen in an NMR tube, which exploded and shredded his left cornea. This chemist names an asymmetric reaction that converts alkenes to vicinal 1,2-diols.
ANSWER: Barry Sharpless [or Karl Barry Sharpless; accept Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation]
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Summary
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Data
| We Need New Names | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | var merchants | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | Lisan al-Quib | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU B | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | Les Missourables | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | The Empire Bikes Back | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | The Jeam Team | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | The Oldest Men in the World | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |