What's Wrong with This Picture?: sodium azide edition

I think you got it wrong, guys. 

I'm not crazy, am I?

Credit: Doug Taber, Organic Chemistry Highlights

I like reading Doug Taber's "Organic Chemistry Highlights" every week. Weird question - is there anything weird about today's 2nd synthetic scheme?*

*there isn't some sort of notation that I'm not familiar with, is there?

WWWTP: THC edition

From the inbox, a minor oopsie. 

WWWTP: Czech academia edition

Credit: Anonymous reader

From the inbox, a reader comments: "This is an ad for vscht, a chemistry school in Prague, Czech Republic, one of the most prestigious and big in central Europe. They just ran an ad campaign featuring 2 pentavalent carbons."

WWWTP: study guide edition

Credit: West Coast Gabby

Courtesy of West Coast Gabby, a study guide that fails its owners.

(Regarding study guides: did anyone find that it was actually the process of making your own study guide that prepared you for the test?)

#WWWTP: What is that?!?

Credit: Science Friday/The wall of the Institute for Art and Olfaction. Photo by Chau Tu 

What's "methyl anthralate"? (Do they mean 'methyl anthranilate?') Interesting chalkboard at a perfumery, as covered by Science Friday. 

What's wrong with this picture?

Courtesy of Bubba at In The Pipeline, a truly amusing set of bad chemistry structures behind this fake chemistry teacher.

(Surely correcting bad chemistry in Hollywood could be a paying job for someone, right?)

Also, a very perceptive comment from him:

"If you don't watch TV between 6 and 7pm, then you are entirely missing the public face of pharma."

Oh, dear, I'm afraid that's true. 

What do structures look like when they're in lower-case?

Copyright: NASA

A couple of months ago, I was watching "The X-Files"* and I saw this image flash up on the screen -- turns out to be one of the pictures that's on "The Golden Record" that's on the Voyager spacecraft.

I thought there was something rather odd-looking about it, and what I note is both the unique font (with backwards serifs (is that the term?)) and lower-case structures.

I welcome our alien overlords, but if they're using lower-case letters in their structures, it will be cause for interstellar war.

*The excellent episode "Little Green Men". 

#wwwtp: process chemistry edition

From a cherished reader, this ad from Radley's:

Call me crazy, but I don't think that would satisfy safety requirements in most kilo laboratories, unless those were steel-toed heels. 

wwwtp: structures + kid = wth?

So you've absorbed my science into your DNA? (hopefully not haploid.) My chemistry is so stupid a kid could do it? You've hired some really smart kids (literally?) Your kids like to draw on your walls?

Readers, can you make heads or tails of this ad?