Next Video (Choices...) (Patreon)

So, the next official project is the 'original Napalm recipe', which involves Napthenic acid and Palmitic acid. While I'm still making the ingredients, I'm yet to convince myself that a) it is a good idea to make a video on this subject and b) I can do it safely while not being completely underwhelming.
So maybe this video will never be made, who knows.

But you know what we haven't done in a while??? Some good transition metal chemistry. There's two transition metal projects I can pick up, both are about the same amount of work and have about the same appeal to me. They are:

Copper amine complexes. The last few years, there been a few amateurs who are huge fans of a complex called Tetraamine copper perchlorate. But the TetraamineCopper (TAC) ion can combine with a lot of things, and make some pretty interesting energetic materials. I've made TAC persulfate before, and then there's TAC chlorate that's well know. There's also TAC bromate which would be a bit more novel. I'd compare them all, talk about how the anion influences things. There's a few different compounds to make for the video, but each one isn't heaps of work (hopefully).

Cobalt nitro-tetrazole. Back to some tetrazoles, there's some really favourable literature reports of a complex called... Bis-(5-nitro-2H-tetrazolato-N2)tetraammine[cobalt(III)] perchlorate (BNCP). Its not just a tetrazole salt, here its actually using the tetrazole as a ligand, so you still have room to pack a perchlorate in as the anion. Should be pretty top-tier energetic stuff.
There's only one complex to make, but I might have to make more tetrazole, which is a bit of work.

So as Patreons, what do we think?
I have to decide, because if I work on them both at once, I wont finish a video for many months...

Thanks!!
Tom