{"id":759,"date":"2022-02-23T20:41:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T20:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.uni.edu\/chin\/?p=759"},"modified":"2022-02-23T21:27:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T21:27:52","slug":"the-new-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.uni.edu\/chin\/2022\/02\/23\/the-new-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Bitcoin?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rhodium is one of the more expensive metals that we get to use. Back in graduate school my first project was to make a rhodium pyrazolyl borate complex. After going through about 5 g of RhCl3<\/sub>, my advisor put me on a different project. It think that was about a $500 mistake. I never was able to make the rhodium complex, but Doug Wick was able to make it a few years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paper I was trying to follow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bill and Doug’s paper with the successful rhodium synthesis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rhodium prices for the last 5 years. Really went nuts in 2021 at about $25,000 an oz. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So I am sitting on some RhCl3<\/sub> from a previous project. Time to sell the rhodium stash and retire to Roatan to do some scuba diving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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