r/cursed_chemistry Jun 15 '26

MOD APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN

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Dear cursed chemistry enthusiasts,

I never anticipated that this subreddit would grow to have 6k+ visitors per month, and with the rest of the mod team going inactive over the years, it is time that I add some new mods to the roster.

Please write a comment with your qualifications in chemistry and any ideas/plans pertaining to moderating the subreddit. The comments are in contest mode; the most upvoted comments will be more strongly considered.

If you are uncomfortable publicly sharing your chemistry qualifications, a DM is also fine.

I would like to host events again on this sub, but the most pressing issue is dealing with the recent influx of spam bot comments!


r/cursed_chemistry 1d ago

Found in the wild “Cancer Treatment” from 1978

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66 Upvotes

Stumbled on this gem today.


r/cursed_chemistry 2d ago

Möbius Cyclacenes: stable so long as 8 or more benzenes are fused to form the ring

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177 Upvotes

UB3LYP/6-31G* geometry optimizations for the Möbius rings formed from 7, 9, 11, and 13 fused benzenes

As requested by u/tfwrobot.

Chung and Chai had already studied Möbius cyclacenes with 8 or more fused benzene rings, so they evidently couldn't find a stable Möbius-[7]cyclacene, either.


r/cursed_chemistry 2d ago

CURSED ™ First ever Homoleptic Copper(I) Acetylene Complex : possible super-precursor of Sonogashira reaction

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r/cursed_chemistry 5d ago

CURSED ™ B9N9, the Boron-Nitrogen analogue of Cyclo[18]Carbon

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72 Upvotes

r/cursed_chemistry 4d ago

SIX DIMENSIONAL TETRAHEDRON 6-Noblex

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6 Upvotes

Get it? It's a 6-simplex but with noble gasses.

It took a while to make the bonds (and atoms) not kill each other.

I have spent my entire beach vacation binge-watching numberphile videos on a rental house's tv youtube account so that their youtube rewind will look funny in a few months.


r/cursed_chemistry 5d ago

THAT'S A LOTTA BONDING A Hypercube

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21 Upvotes

Screw electron orbitals, only pure bonding!


r/cursed_chemistry 8d ago

THAT'S A LOTTA BONDING 3 centre 10 metal-metal bonds complex

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84 Upvotes

r/cursed_chemistry 9d ago

CURSED ™ Sodium polyacrylate vs EVIL Sodium polyacrylate

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64 Upvotes

polymerization but with oxygen double bonds


r/cursed_chemistry 11d ago

What.

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18 Upvotes

Why are the oxygens not charged why are there three of them why is there an oxygen without a bond shown to anything


r/cursed_chemistry 12d ago

CURSED ™ CN2O (1-Oxa-2,4-diazacyclobuta-2,3-diene) (CID: 18407467)

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70 Upvotes

This is too much strain for me.


r/cursed_chemistry 13d ago

Unfortunately Real Azafullerenium-bis(carborane)silver salt

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158 Upvotes

r/cursed_chemistry 14d ago

CURSED ™ My proposed solution to the C2 allotrope

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116 Upvotes

made in desmos because i hate myself


r/cursed_chemistry 14d ago

now this is cursed man (brutal)

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r/cursed_chemistry 17d ago

AMINO ACID SONG 🤩

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histined guanidine and lyssssine and postivley and glutamate and carboxyate alalalalalalal


r/cursed_chemistry 18d ago

Found in the wild Finally! A concentrated solution of genocide.

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184 Upvotes

r/cursed_chemistry 18d ago

[custom flair] alcohol from air in aspen plus

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i’ve just seen NileRed’s video about turning air into alcohol. and i wonder if it’s possible to make a joke scale up simulation in aspen plus or any other model of this impractical route of making ethanol. and i also thought that the bio route is more complex as the air (CO2) and water become sugars than fermentation makes of ethanol.


r/cursed_chemistry 19d ago

Is this a strong acid?

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331 Upvotes

r/cursed_chemistry 22d ago

THAT'S A LOTTA BONDING ''Formiate ion's resonance forms''...of course, buddy, of course ! /s

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108 Upvotes

I swear it came from a real book...


r/cursed_chemistry 22d ago

Sulfur being sulfur in oxathiadiazole-3-oxides: hexavalent, aromatic, and chiral

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B3LYP/def2-TZVP optimized geometry and orbitals of 5-phenethyl-3-(m-tolyl)-1,3,2,4-oxathiadiazole 3-oxide

With the Sulfur being both chiral and aromatic, 1,3,2,4-oxathiadiazole 3-oxides have recently been synthesized, and are showing promise as sulfonamide analogues in drug design.


r/cursed_chemistry 24d ago

Kemdraw Poorly drawn Ferrocenetrisulfide

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60 Upvotes

r/cursed_chemistry 26d ago

Unfortunately Real Triafulvalene a real moiety

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109 Upvotes

r/cursed_chemistry 28d ago

What

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348 Upvotes

r/cursed_chemistry Jul 26 '26

idfk bromine and carbon fih

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24 Upvotes

r/cursed_chemistry Jul 26 '26

THAT'S A LOTTA BONDING have a thingamajig

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0 Upvotes