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Nicodem
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To those who might have missed this:
InnoCentive is currently offering a challenge in "Seeking Compounds with Remarkably Strong Odors." The challenge has a long-lasting deadline (1.
September 2012) and has been on for some time already.
| Quote: | Material supply of compounds which have remarkably strong odors is desired. The nature of the odor is not important (e.g. pleasant or unpleasant),
only its strength. The Seeker intends to award multiple Solvers for each of their qualifying submissions.
Intellectual Property: In return for the Initial Transfer Fee of $500 per compound, you are expected to grant the Seeker only a non-exclusive license
to test your compound(s) in their in-house assays and/or use the compound(s) to prepare other compounds for in-house testing. |
https://www.innocentive.com/ar/challenge/9932847
…there is a human touch of the cultist “believer” in every theorist that he must struggle against as being
unworthy of the scientist. Some of the greatest men of science have publicly repudiated a theory which earlier they hotly defended. In this lies their
scientific temper, not in the scientific defense of the theory. - Weston La Barre (Ghost Dance, 1972)
Read the The ScienceMadness Guidelines!
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eyeofjake
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I hear hydrogen cyanide is pretty nasty smelling....the last smell you will ever get haha.
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UnintentionalChaos
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I *love* the smell of diacetyl. It is so incredibly strong, too. You can open a bottle and wave your hand over it once to disperse a little vapor,
then close it. 20 minutes later, the room will still smell like movie popcorn.
After I finished making it, the entire house smelled of it for a good week. You wouldn't normally notice but when you went out for a few hours and
came back, it would smell like someone made popcorn.
[Edited on 1-6-12 by UnintentionalChaos]
Department of Redundancy Department - Now with paperwork!
'In organic synthesis, we call decomposition products "crap", however this is not a IUPAC approved nomenclature.' -Nicodem
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MattVon
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I sometimes like to sniff a little bit of isopropyl alcohol. I just love that
sharp, tingly odor for some reason. I also like acetone. It's kind of fruity, like a watermelon in my opinion. And also vanillin, of course.
The worst? Sodium metabisulfide and the sulfur dioxide it produces when it touches acid (rotten eggs, makes me want to vomit). Bleach. Ethyl mercaptan
(urine) Methyl mercaptan (rotten vegetables). And propionic acid (smells like your armpit on a hot day)
[Edited on 26-7-2012 by MattVon]
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Mailinmypocket
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I really like the smell of phenol, sort of mediciney and also smells like new plastic... Can't be healthy at all but I like it 
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Hypochlorite bleach, mmmmh. Anything halogen-like, really. I've sort of grown up in a pool and I love the smell. Certainly not the best smelling thing
in existence, but fairly common.
The smell of "black liquor" on the other hand (pulping 'chemical') makes me want to gag, and it sticks for hours and hours. It's worse than H2S, LPG
with mercaptan, and I think only pyridine gets close...
[Edited on 2012-7-26 by Siggebo]
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polymerizer87
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har har har
smells like antiseptic to me
Worst: Pyridine, diethylamine, mercapto (species), halogens, acid chlorides
Best: the Oxitocin your mom puts out when I'm laying in bed with her 
[Edited on 26-7-2012 by polymerizer87]
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I got ostracized after a butyric acid spill and cleanup. Phenylacetaldehyde is nice. Phenthyl Br is similar. Saffrole is another nice one. Frank
Walters made some synthetic musks that are really nice.
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kristofvagyok
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I had a reaction not long ago where sodium hydride was used as a base in dimethylsulfoxide (solvent). There was no problem, the hydride reacted as it
should, some fizzing was observed and everything went fine until I discovered something...
The hydrogen reduced a part of the DMSO to dimethyl sulfide what had a smell of rotten cabbage. The distillation and the product workup was horribe,
especially when the rest of the DMSO was removed on the rotavap, never again.
Also some other horrible smelling chemicals what I have "met": allyl bromide, butyric acid, ethyl mercaptan, chloroacetyl chloride, bromoacetic acid
esters, bromine, isopentyl nitrite, phosphorous oxychloride, methylthioacetaldehyde diethylacetal and the methylthioacetaldehyde (smells like rotten
pumpkin), ect...
And afterwards pyridine is aint so bad, there are much worse smelling things.
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What about p-kresol? Smells strongly of... Of... Horse or perhaps stables or in fact horse piss.
Another personal worst is n-penthanol, which smells like rutgut liqueur.
[Edited on 27-7-2012 by Yo-Yo]
I took a PhD in neuropharmacology and all I got was this bloody t-shirt.
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Teen Chemist
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I'm considering using butyric acid in a stink capsule that will release a foul smell when it bursts but I read concentrated butyric acin causes burns
to the skin. If I dilute it enough to renter it safe will it still stink enough it be effective.
[Edited on 30-7-2012 by Teen Chemist]
[Edited on 30-7-2012 by Teen Chemist]
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AllisterCaine
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hi, im new to the forum. ive got a first question- is there a section where i could introduce myself to other members? 
ontopic: dimanganheptoxide is a very, very nice smelling chemical.
i dont know what it is that exactly smells, maybe the compound itself but i could imagine that its propably emitting ozone....
btw, is it ok to have a note in my signature saying im selling?
i ll open a topic in the correct section in about 1 or 2 days.
I'm selling some used glass-stuff- volumetric-flasks and chromatography-columns of different sizes!
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dasgoose21
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I say that the three best smelling chemicals are: Vanillin, Methyl Salicate, and Isoamyl Acetate.
As for bad smellin chemicals I really don't like is Putrescine. To me it kind of smells like Rotting flesh and Sewage......
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Teen Chemist
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An mouthful of difluoroethane with some denatonium benzoate (canned air) pretty much sucks.
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Magic Muzzlet
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Discovered huffing, huh?
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Teen Chemist
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No it was accidential
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I am personally a fan of the smell of ethyl vanillin, isoamyl acetate, mineral spirits. I detest the smell of phenylacetylene and styrene.
Benzotrichloride also smells pretty bad.
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Mercedesbenzene
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I am personally a fan of the smell of ethyl vanillin, isoamyl acetate, mineral spirits. I detest the smell of phenylacetylene and styrene.
Benzotrichloride also smells pretty bad.
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Rogeryermaw
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i used that
stuff to clean my keyboard and the taste of the bittering agent got on my hands. when i went to eat dinner...much vomiting ensued.
never again.
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quinoxaline man
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A favorite...
How about Skatole? Otherwise known as 3-methylindole.
[Edited on 3-9-2012 by quinoxaline man]
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Poppy
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The smell comin off when you burn those acrylic caps of a LED is like pure garlic shhhuu!
Best smell: masking-tape.
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Hello could any of you bother recognize the smell of this very specific component found in exhaust gases of old trucks?? Whats that T love it!
The worst smell is vomit for sure!
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Naphtalene?
Rest In Pieces!
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Teen Chemist
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Quote: Originally posted by Rogeryermaw  | i used that
stuff to clean my keyboard and the taste of the bittering agent got on my hands. when i went to eat dinner...much vomiting ensued.
never again. |
Some of it got on my hands also and I had to wear gloves to eat dinner.
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Trimethylamine is pretty bad, like rotten fish and it has an odour treshold of about 0.3-0.8 ppb so one drop spilled and your fume hood will smell for
weeks to come...
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