{"id":49,"date":"2008-09-29T05:59:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T12:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2008\/09\/c7-h10-o3-contest---week-3-results.html"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:13:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:13:06","slug":"c7-h10-o3-contest-week-3-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2008\/09\/c7-h10-o3-contest-week-3-results\/","title":{"rendered":"C7 H10 O3 contest &#8211; Week #3 Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final week of the C7 H10 O3 contest brought in two entries. Gabe Holt and Patrick Fink had submitted an entry during week #1, but all of the other participants were brand new, bringing the total number of participating students to 19 (one-third of the class).<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, neither team could come up with an isomer that had been described in the scientific literature so we don&#8217;t really have a &#8220;winner&#8221; in the usual sense this week. However, in the event of a tie, the judges (me) have decided that the runner-ups will split the usual prizes, so everyone will go home with half of a milk chocolate truffle pig. Enjoy. Here are the structures that were submitted this week:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"C7H10O3 week 3.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/files\/bin\/C7H10O3%20week%203.gif\" class=\"mt-image-none\" width=\"359\" height=\"139\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And since you are probably dying to know what the best-studied isomers look like,  <\/p>\n<p><p><!--more-->I have listed the Top 5 in the following chart. The #1 compound<br \/>\ncontains a strained epoxide ring (we will study the chemistry of this<br \/>\ngroup later in the semester) and an unsaturated ester (this group will<br \/>\nbe described next semester in 202). Pat speculates that this compound<br \/>\nis used to make polymers, or perhaps adhesives. Interestingly, there is<br \/>\na huge drop-off of interest in going from #1 (5783 hits) to #2 (525<br \/>\nhits), but #2 looks like a real winner: the ketone-ester combination is<br \/>\ncommonly encountered and it will be the subject of a lecture or two<br \/>\nnext semester. By the way, Pat submitted his own guess on the sly<br \/>\nduring week #1. It didn&#8217;t quite crack the Top 5 list, but he just<br \/>\nmissed by a hair: it was #6 and had 218 hits. So next time, bribe Pat<br \/>\nfor some hints and take home the chocolate!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"C7H10O3 top 5.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/files\/bin\/C7H10O3%20top%205.gif\" class=\"mt-image-none\" width=\"304\" height=\"353\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final week of the C7 H10 O3 contest brought in two entries. Gabe Holt and Patrick Fink had submitted an entry during week #1, but all of the other participants were brand new, bringing the total number of participating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests-challenges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5209,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/5209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}