aznswimmerxc Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 It was on the side of the VBI (Virginia Bioinformatics Institute) building at Virginia Tech, I'm really carious about what this is.. If you guys need more pictures I can post more! Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yojoe Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 It appears to be: 3,5,7-trihydroxy-2-(3,4,5-trihydroxycyclohexyl)-octahydrochromen-4-one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Cuthber Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 I wonder if they were trying for this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphinidin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chemfan Posted May 8, 2008 Share Posted May 8, 2008 It is interesting see it in the building. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeanK2 Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 The correct name of this compound is 3,5,7-trihydroxy-2-(3,4,5-trihydroxycyclohexyl)-octahydrochromen-4-one. Yojoe knows his nomenclature Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules7890 Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 I doubt they were trying for that one, John Cuthber. The one on the webpage is missing an oxygen. But that is really interesting ... I wish I knew what the significance was!! They probably just want to confuse nerds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNow Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 Perhaps it's a riddle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 It's another incident of nerd sniping: http://xkcd.com/356/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Cuthber Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 "The one on the webpage is missing an oxygen." No, the structure on that wiki page is correct for delphinidin. The one on the building is some obscure stuff that nobody seems to have heard of. I still think they tried to put up an image of delphinidin, but messed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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