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Offline Pastaccoli

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Identity of a molecule from a partial structure?
« on: August 04, 2016, 04:25:59 PM »
Hello, not even sure if this is the proper place (or site) to ask this question. But myself and a handful of others were confronted by a mystery molecule. However, it is partially covered up by text. The molecule in question is as follows:



Consulted a couple people and I was told the Nitrogen functional groups off the ring are Guanidine (I haven't touched orgo in so long, I'd never heard of this group). I've done some pretty extensive searches, based purely on the visible ring and its constituents, to see if it's part of an important molecule. Unfortunately I wasn't the most orgo-savvy student and perhaps my memory lapses are hindering my searches. I can give you the context of this molecule, but it wouldn't be at all useful. However, key buzzwords included were: energy, excitement, taxonomy, sunflowers (the full photo is littered with sunflowers). No common compounds come to mind that incorporate sunflowers, but I've searched anything I could think of revolving around energy and excitement/brain chemistry. So I'm at a dead end here.

So overall, not much to go off of. What is visible is a cyclohexane hexanol (inositol?) with two substituted Guanidine groups (??). Most likely revolves around energy, sunflowers.

It's a longshot, but seeing as hundreds of people have seen this image, and no one's figured out what it is, I thought I might ask.

Thanks.

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Re: Identity of a molecule from a partial structure?
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2016, 05:19:24 PM »
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