Which Bases are Based?

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  • Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
  • In this video, I decide which base is the best! Let me know down in the comments if you disagree with any of my assessments!
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Комментарии • 304

  • @ficolas2
    @ficolas2 2 года назад +396

    its hygGROScopic, because hygroscopic solids are gross

  • @arya6085
    @arya6085 2 года назад +138

    Should have switched the colours from S to F for pH strips. How could the best base be red?

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  2 года назад +132

      knock-off alibaba pH strips

    • @pmathewizard
      @pmathewizard 2 года назад +29

      He used eggplant juice as pH indicator

  • @Default78334
    @Default78334 2 года назад +24

    You don't need to go through the trouble of heating sodium bicarbonate just to get your hands on sodium carbonate. It's sold in big boxes in the laundry aisle as "washing soda".

  • @janAlekantuwa
    @janAlekantuwa 2 года назад +88

    Fun facr: soda used to be carbonated using sodium bicarb (and some versions of club soda still have bicarb added). That's where the name "soda" came from

  • @Blakearmin
    @Blakearmin 2 года назад +219

    One of the things I love about your channel not being huge yet is all the interaction we have with you. Getting a like from you or a comment is always fun!

  • @aashishkapoor1468
    @aashishkapoor1468 2 года назад +9

    you apologising to water for forgetting it gives me an unreasonable amount of serotonin lol

  • @carll.1405
    @carll.1405 2 года назад +83

    This video is a great way to avoid studying for my chemistry test while feeling productive anyways

  • @AoiTheLaughingMan
    @AoiTheLaughingMan 2 года назад +14

    BASE TIER LIST
    Damn we're living in the golden era of internet

  • @thenotsoradrussian_1727
    @thenotsoradrussian_1727 2 года назад +32

    I have no idea about any of these, my favorite bass is a blue washburn I got from my uncle when I was 15

    • @pmathewizard
      @pmathewizard 2 года назад +7

      Uncles really the wild card of a given family

  • @anhdung7056
    @anhdung7056 Год назад +9

    Not sure if this was unintentional, or if you were calling us basic with the “You’re a 10? Only on the pH scale”
    Either way I love it.

  • @pmathewizard
    @pmathewizard 2 года назад +148

    When the title is not: The most based base?
    My disappointment is unmeasurable and my day is ruined.
    Good video though

  • @garymemetoo2238
    @garymemetoo2238 2 года назад +18

    ". . . if you're not careful, you'll burn the lab down." I guess in organic chemistry, burning the lab down could be sort of an occupational hazard.

  • @MaquiladoraIII
    @MaquiladoraIII 2 года назад +60

    You can't beat a bit of sodium hydride, possessing a little bit of danger coupled with a pka that shits on other bases from a great height.

    • @DrSchnufflez
      @DrSchnufflez 2 года назад +4

      Just imagine the deprotonations you could accomplish if it were soluble in the workhorse organic solvents...

    • @chirone_
      @chirone_ Год назад

      try _o_ diethynylbenzene dianion

    • @milesmccollough5507
      @milesmccollough5507 Год назад

      @@DrSchnufflez could use potassium hydride and a crown ether but KH is fucking scary.

  • @samsawesomeminecraft
    @samsawesomeminecraft Год назад +18

    Calcium carbonate is my favorite base for making candy out of fruits. Lemon juice and some other sour fruits are too sour on their own to be made into candy without diluting them with sugar, so I neutralize the citrate with calcium to make it more palletable.

    • @juliaf_
      @juliaf_ Год назад +5

      *me drinking lemon juice straight* wdym too sour?

    • @magusperde365
      @magusperde365 Год назад +3

      @@juliaf_ stop talking this close to our face we get enamel chunks stuck on our face

  • @tomilinhar
    @tomilinhar 2 года назад +8

    i just fell into this side of youtube and im loving it so much omg i just have found my kind of people

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  2 года назад +1

      Just wait - the Discord is even better

  • @pivottech8881
    @pivottech8881 Год назад +14

    I would never consider ranking bases yet alone calling them based, I love it. 😂

  • @harryw.174
    @harryw.174 2 года назад +22

    You should do best oxidizers, I wanna see the depths of insanity some of those chemicals are.

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  2 года назад +5

      I'm planning to :)

    • @harryw.174
      @harryw.174 2 года назад +7

      @@That_Chemist oh man, your spoiling us, what have we done to deserve such quality content

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  2 года назад +6

      @@harryw.174 just keep being the best people you can be :)

    • @harryw.174
      @harryw.174 2 года назад +5

      @@That_Chemist I can smell the fluorine already.

    • @chemistryofquestionablequa6252
      @chemistryofquestionablequa6252 Год назад

      Anhydrous perchloric acid

  • @Blakearmin
    @Blakearmin 2 года назад +19

    Crosses fingers that sodium hydroxide makes S-tier like HCl did. The two reagents I used most in my vision quests.

    • @Blakearmin
      @Blakearmin 2 года назад

      And it was! Huzzah!

    • @klocugh12
      @klocugh12 2 года назад +4

      @@Blakearmin no surprise really. Those alkali metal hydroxides are just so versatile and not ridiculous to handle (NaOH is literally sold as commercial drain cleaner after all, usually with Al bits mixed in).

    • @pmathewizard
      @pmathewizard Год назад

      It is also easy to neutralize

  • @specialk3534
    @specialk3534 2 года назад +12

    Cesium carbonate is GOATED for many reactions thanks to big boi Cesium and it's solvation behavior. Especially for SnAR with fluoride leaving groups.

  • @jlnnnr
    @jlnnnr 2 года назад +35

    I get that you didn't put spartein into F tier because it's a bad base but I still think it should be top tier because there aren't many chiral bases and when combined with n-BuLi you can do chiral lithiation which is neat.

  • @randomguy123playsgames
    @randomguy123playsgames Год назад +11

    Personally my favorite is NaOH because it’s half of the reaction to make table salt and salt is tasty

  • @jamalsonicova2509
    @jamalsonicova2509 2 года назад +2

    You know it is time for weekend when you see a list of chemicals on youtube and still missread the title as "best taste beerlist"...

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  2 года назад +2

      I would 100% do a best taste beerlist

    • @jamalsonicova2509
      @jamalsonicova2509 2 года назад +1

      @@That_Chemist
      I am down for it
      But also hoping i won't missread that one as best base tierlist^^

  • @klondikesaloon7026
    @klondikesaloon7026 2 года назад +7

    11:10 Very interesting anecdote for me, thanks for sharing. Also, quinuclidine is actually pretty toxic (LD50 71mg/kg, KCN is about 5-10mg/kg), which people might not guess based on the structure.

  • @user-hh5kp8fy3z
    @user-hh5kp8fy3z Год назад +1

    I just found you yesterday and I love your stuff

  • @angelina-po7hq
    @angelina-po7hq 2 года назад +8

    after just coming out of organic chemistry, can confirm LDA is the best base of all time and me and my friends wanna get tattoos of it lol

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  2 года назад +6

      maybe I would get a tattoo of LDA if I reach 1 million subs lol

  • @AnimeShinigami13
    @AnimeShinigami13 Год назад +1

    There was a mega disasters episode about HF spills way back. Now I know just how bad it is when the accident investigator in the middle of a meeting gets word of an accident in the town where the meeting is held and the owners of the chemical plant you're talking about and to say that they aren't sure what happened "but there's no way someone dropped a heavy object on the HF tank." Guess what the accident was caused by?

  • @socratesm.5632
    @socratesm.5632 2 года назад +5

    Coming from a lab that used superacids on a daily basis, I feel like I'm missing a hand without seeing superbases being covered😜 I needed Schlosser

  • @succulent6123
    @succulent6123 2 года назад +2

    the joke on the thumbnail was one of the best things ive seen all day

  • @chungus816
    @chungus816 Год назад +2

    This is the most nerdy thing I've ever watched and I thoroughly enjoyed it

  • @Alterraboo
    @Alterraboo 2 года назад +11

    based

  • @jamesprince571
    @jamesprince571 2 года назад +7

    u have a serious number of followers for a typical chemistry channel!!!

  • @louiesatterwhite3885
    @louiesatterwhite3885 Год назад

    2:06 I don't remember what the lab was, but I was in an analytical chem laboratory and one of the byproducts of our reaction proceeding was HF. Yeah that was fun.
    Overall my favorite experience with bases has been with Grignard reagents, which are R-MgX where X is usually bromine or chlorine, which react very similarly to organolithiums. Don't add them to water folks.

  • @piguyalamode164
    @piguyalamode164 Год назад +3

    Where's sodium bicarbonate(aka baking soda)? It deserves like at least b tier for being a base you can eat. I know it is amphoteric, but its a base in neutral water so it counts. The lab space I am currently working in has it in plastic containers for acid spills(the lab space is used by undergrads during the school year).

  • @mattcroft
    @mattcroft Год назад +3

    "potassium hydroxide, it's been a base for a really long time--"
    did it used to... not??? 😂

  • @Acute.
    @Acute. Год назад +3

    This channel is going to blow up

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Год назад +1

      Only thanks to amazing viewers like yourself :)

  • @balazsbelavari7556
    @balazsbelavari7556 2 года назад +1

    Hey there! I’d have a question if possible, so I just had a (high school) chemistry test and in one of the excercises I hade to choose that either one or both acetaldehyde and methyl methanoate gives a positive Tollens test. Of course I wrote the textbook answer of the aldehyde but then I thought that the reagent has ammonia dissolved in it, so is it possible for NH4OH to break up some of the ester bonds to form ammonium formate and can ammonium formate be oxidated by the remaining reagent?

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  2 года назад +3

      probably yeah - formate esters often react in similar ways to how aldehydes will anyway!

  • @TheTomlav
    @TheTomlav 2 года назад +1

    Amazing content, as always.

  • @DrSchnufflez
    @DrSchnufflez 2 года назад +7

    I rate nBuNa and nBuK for sheer deprotonative ability with minimal addition.
    Their instant pyrophoricity in air increases their inherent spiciness whilst doubling as an easy way to tell if your reagent is good - if the residue on the weigh boat is on fire when you take it out of the glovebox it's A-OK 👌

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  2 года назад +1

      wow!

    • @DrSchnufflez
      @DrSchnufflez 2 года назад +4

      @@That_Chemist never before has fire been such a welcomed addition within a synthetic lab...

  • @Thaumius
    @Thaumius 2 года назад +1

    I'd be interested to see a video on how you chose your reagents (ie: what factors are most important when choosing a reagent)?

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  2 года назад

      Do you mean like conditions for a given transformation?

    • @Thaumius
      @Thaumius 2 года назад

      @@That_Chemist What I mean is how do you chose your reagents ex: cost, toxicity, easy to dispose, effectiveness etc.

  • @konradukasiewicz4834
    @konradukasiewicz4834 2 года назад +5

    I humbly request tar tier list

  • @kokogoloko6000
    @kokogoloko6000 Год назад +2

    i love that chemistry content is coming up in my recommended all the time now

  • @MrDino1953
    @MrDino1953 2 года назад +2

    But which one is the “Jimi Hendrix” of all those bases? There can only be one.

  • @JkoFK3R
    @JkoFK3R 2 года назад +4

    I guess everyone forget that instant noddles have sodium carbonate instant S tier

  • @ionamygdalon2263
    @ionamygdalon2263 2 года назад +1

    Subscribed after learning about the new channel :)

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  2 года назад +1

      Thanks!

    • @ionamygdalon2263
      @ionamygdalon2263 2 года назад

      @@That_Chemist
      Wishing your new channel the best of luck! Kindest regards :)

  • @davidthane9002
    @davidthane9002 Год назад +1

    Chemical tierlists.... I am obviously a nerd for loving this!

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Год назад

      you are now officially a mouth pipettor :)

  • @8bits59
    @8bits59 2 года назад +4

    The thing folks forget about carbonates is their ability to foam like an ungodly bubble bath in your beaker. And that foam doesn't knock down either, no; it sticks to all the glass and the rod you're trying to manage it all with. It forms a goop akin to napalm but with the properties of the solution it formed from.
    Tl;dr: fuck carbonates :(

  • @kellylynch975
    @kellylynch975 11 месяцев назад

    When I first begin to distill whiskey, my training operator and I were unloading a drum of 50% caustic solution using a diaphragm pump when it broke apart on us and unloaded its contents right onto our front sides.
    Luckily we were wearing aprons, face shields, gloves, goggles, and boots so our skin exposure was minimal.
    We laughed about how our significant others would feel about the situation as we stripped down to our underwear and took turns at chem shower, passing each other the soap and a hose.

  • @febobartoli
    @febobartoli 2 года назад +2

    “KOH … it’s been a base for a really long time…” 😂

  • @Penguin24766
    @Penguin24766 2 года назад +3

    I wish someone had done this chart when I studied :P thank you ! Atleast now I can use it for hobbies ^^

  • @douro20
    @douro20 4 месяца назад

    DBU can apparently be sourced from the pink vase sponge (Niphates digitalis).

  • @gamingmarcus
    @gamingmarcus 2 года назад +5

    Bicarb deserves S tier because it's the easiest way to reach pH 7.

    • @alextopfer1068
      @alextopfer1068 2 года назад

      Bicarb deserves S tier because it goes into Snacks 😋

  • @iwantaseperateytaccount3305
    @iwantaseperateytaccount3305 2 года назад

    tier lists are cool, thanks :)

  • @jimparsons6803
    @jimparsons6803 6 месяцев назад

    Interesting and thanks. Listening to the clip now. So far (and with other clips too) no mention of water was or is mentioned? Which is odd, I think, as water from the air is always getting into everything.

  • @TheMeninwhit
    @TheMeninwhit 2 года назад

    Sodium acetate is the way to go for Knoevenagel ! (Even tetrabutylammonium acetate when you want the cation)

  • @auntydoll8
    @auntydoll8 Год назад +1

    cool video, thank you sharing knowledge xoxo

  • @ThatRedHusky
    @ThatRedHusky Год назад +3

    Would you say the S tier are the Ace of Bases?

  • @slimp4644
    @slimp4644 2 года назад

    Great video! Out of curiosity, where would you rank the halide versions of tetrabutylammonium as phase transfer catalysts?

  • @AnimeShinigami13
    @AnimeShinigami13 Год назад

    I have never seen anything remove grease from plastic tupperware better than baking soda with a little water and dish soap. I also use it to shift the colors of a lot of natural dye. I suspect its capable of extracting color too simply because it sucks fluids out of the source plant and any spoilage bacteria and molds that might be present, meaning you can just keep extracting slow and cold until the water starts to turn clear or the smell finally gets to be too much. The latter takes like a month or something like that. Baking soda will shift some colors that are vulnerable to PH changes. I got blue from purple cabbage and purple majesty potatoes and red from tumeric. Disclaimer: color fastness from any of my dye projects remains to be seen.

  • @TheMrFrukt
    @TheMrFrukt 2 года назад +2

    The tier list seems pretty radical. Too many bases rated either S or F

  • @wiseSYW
    @wiseSYW Год назад +9

    this list is pretty basic

  • @JacobTFuller
    @JacobTFuller Год назад

    I'm in fear of the day I catch up on your content... Then you'll be another stranger that unknowingly has ahold of my life, by me waiting and hoping for new uploads everyday

  • @NormReitzel
    @NormReitzel Год назад

    K-tBuO- Dandy base, just pop an amp of NaK, dump into t-BuOH and wait for the fizzing to stop. Easy-Peasy. When one of Argonne's research breeders was shut down, I bought about 12 kg of NaK on the surplus market - I used it for decades!

  • @saiykoz
    @saiykoz 2 года назад +4

    this tierlist is based

  • @tusharbhudia9421
    @tusharbhudia9421 Год назад +3

    lol Ive used HF before, I didnt know it was that scary.

  • @Sniperboy5551
    @Sniperboy5551 8 месяцев назад

    I think That Chemist just taught me a new insult. “You’re a basic butane” 😂

  • @finalfun3641
    @finalfun3641 Год назад +2

    you know what i don´t really know any bases. But the based title just kept me here. :)
    nice vid.

  • @littig297
    @littig297 2 года назад +2

    Where are the conjugate bases from the acid video hello??????

  • @hyunwoopark131
    @hyunwoopark131 2 года назад +1

    Hilarious looking at KF thrown into the F tier. I'm having a fight in Stille workup recently.

  • @Dmayrion2
    @Dmayrion2 Год назад +2

    Lithium hydride burns down labs you say? Well it's a good thing I'm only making 10 kilograms of lithium deuteride instead.

  • @SaladDongs
    @SaladDongs Год назад +2

    hmm yes I like the one that has the interesting letters in it

  • @RaunienTheFirst
    @RaunienTheFirst 2 года назад +3

    F for Fluorine

  • @foc2241
    @foc2241 2 года назад +1

    7:44 OMG this reminds me of "it's not leviosaaa it's levioooosaa" XD

  • @ngocduynguyen7580
    @ngocduynguyen7580 Год назад

    Can you tell me what app do you use?

  • @dannyundos8927
    @dannyundos8927 Год назад +2

    I wonder the reason for absence of Rb(rubidium) compounds?

  • @NormReitzel
    @NormReitzel Год назад

    Also, N-methyl morpholine doesn't make you reek of dead fish for a week! hat applies to morpholine, too. One of my favorites.

  • @pluieuwu
    @pluieuwu 2 года назад +2

    alternate title: which base is most based

  • @sebastiand152
    @sebastiand152 2 года назад +1

    Di methyl ethyl amine should be on the list. Better than triethyl amine or Huenig's base, as you can remove it more easily. It is almost a gas.

  • @DrSchnufflez
    @DrSchnufflez 2 года назад +2

    I've used KCH2TMS (otherwise known as KR in the inorganic world) but only to make other, heterobimetallic bases with, well, even more basicity... So I can't vouch for it as a monometallic species

  • @JudeKennedyATCL
    @JudeKennedyATCL 2 года назад +7

    As someone who has just finished his first year of Med Chem in uni, I get extremely excited anytime we're mentioned. Half of my lecturers forget that we exist🙃🤣

  • @pilidod
    @pilidod Год назад +1

    I don't know anything about chemistry, why am I watching this? Do I really like tier list videos this much?

  • @yancgc5098
    @yancgc5098 2 месяца назад

    Where does Caesium Hydride fall into? B tier like Caesium Hydroxide?

  • @telotawa
    @telotawa 2 года назад +1

    cool, now i can combine the best acid with the best base!

  • @The_UmbrellaMan
    @The_UmbrellaMan Год назад

    "We don't like long names in chemistry"
    IUPAC: AM I a joke to you?

  • @ironDsteele
    @ironDsteele Месяц назад

    I don't understand most of this language or what most of these are used for but I enjoy watching the videos regardless.

  • @rishatpepsi4333
    @rishatpepsi4333 2 года назад +1

    Top notch content.

  • @methyllithium323
    @methyllithium323 Год назад

    13:58 Oh hey, that's me! Kinda unfortunate I couldn't be more based though

  • @rexevans100
    @rexevans100 Год назад +1

    It's all about that base, no acid

  • @Valdagast
    @Valdagast 2 года назад +3

    Which chemical is, if you'll allow, the Ace of Base.

  • @The_J_Man
    @The_J_Man 2 года назад

    What about the buttery biscuit base?

  • @Professorprime
    @Professorprime 2 года назад

    Can you please rate all of the hadrons and give your reason. Also as a quick question are you more of a Hadrons or Leptons kinda guy?

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  2 года назад

      I mean, even the wikipedia page on both hadrons and leptons is so bad; someone needs to add some clear, concise figures which make it possible to digest

  • @TACCOFSX
    @TACCOFSX 2 года назад +1

    Didn't watch yet but just here to boost you in the algorithm ;)

  • @noicentoit.
    @noicentoit. 2 года назад +1

    i absolutely hate chem and can't give any less of a shit about acids or bases, but i still watched the whole video because of that clever title lmaoo

  • @THE_GREMLINZ_OFFICIAL
    @THE_GREMLINZ_OFFICIAL 5 месяцев назад

    10:26 multi-use

  • @franklinhirsch1654
    @franklinhirsch1654 2 года назад +5

    False. Black base. Base, beets, Battle Star Galactica.

  • @justinedward9243
    @justinedward9243 2 года назад +1

    so fluorine chemist also avoids working with HF, F really is making both convenience and inconvenience at the same time strongly

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  2 года назад +2

      Its mostly an indicator that there are alternatives which are more living being-friendly

    • @justinedward9243
      @justinedward9243 2 года назад

      @@That_Chemist uhh, btw, is perbromic acid accessible in your country? I found it very rare and extremely oxidizing...

  • @russell8215
    @russell8215 Год назад +1

    Sad to not see my boi TMAH represented but otherwise great video!

    • @THEBACONATOR20
      @THEBACONATOR20 Год назад

      Was actually hoping that would be in here i work in a semiconductor fab and don't know much else about it other than it will kill you if it touches you

  • @ChoumadaGaming
    @ChoumadaGaming 2 года назад

    Lutidene gotta be a few lower because its a stinky boy and inferior to pyridine in 9/10 cases and pyridine is being slept on as much as i hate it, it's got to be S tier. Easily removalble as a toluene azeotrope or 1M HCl wash as aq.sol salt. Go to solvent for acetylation and as a HCl scavenger

  • @JakubS
    @JakubS 2 года назад +1

    Which base is the most based? Find out today on That Chemist

  • @OutbackCatgirl
    @OutbackCatgirl 2 года назад +2

    My favourite base is third.

  • @cyan2910
    @cyan2910 Год назад +2

    Now THIS is a pretty based tier list