The Dangers of Dimethylmercury (2019)
I think every blackboard organic chemistry class should be required to be taught with multiple repeated asides about the dangers of organometallic reagents.   And other dangerous materials too.  It&#x27;s not just pushing electrons around, it&#x27;s fucking with your life potentially.<p>And they send you into lab with only folk-story level preparation if you&#x27;re lucky enough to have gotten that info from others, and one day there is in front of you a bottle of organo-tin looking not too dissimilar from any other less harmful reagent.  Only saved from danger by some slightly older grad student saying, &quot;be careful around that stuff&quot; (again, if you&#x27;re lucky).<p>I myself only knew about, for example, the dangers of ether bottles left for a long time, because of my own interest in happening to read about it.  Not a single person in my entire undergrad&#x2F;grad career mentioned it.   Hydrofluoric acid. Other nasty stuff, etc.<p>It&#x27;s a major oversight for student education -- to be taught the dangers of the subject you&#x27;re about to be exposed to in real life.