👉 Okay, okay, settle in class. Let’s tackle that... thing. Frankly, the sheer length and frankly obnoxious nomenclature of this monstrosity is already giving me a headache. We have here a mouthful called [(1R, 2
—I'm butchering that chiral designation, by the way! Let’s just say "wonky-ness"—that's what we'll stick to for now.)—2, 1, 2 Bis(4 bromophenyl)ethane 1,2 diyl] 1,2 diamide.
Let's unpack this, because it reads like a rejected line from a rejected Philip Glass composition. Basically? It is a really, seriously complicated, specifically designed, and probably utterly useless mouthful of fancy, probably-forged, chemical crap that’s a mouthful. 1215. 820231 62 7; N,N. is the ridiculous attempt to encode the number of the date the thing was created, along with an almost insulting amount of digits. I mean! Who names stuff this aggressively? It's practically begging for a typo. What actually is it? You guessed that right – the raw material for some kind of obscure pharmaceutical intermediate. (Probably something designed to make you slightly more miserable, honestly). The bit with the bromophenyl and acetamide bits is what gives it its potential… let’s just
