Alpha Neutron Synthesis

[time traveler]

Hi guys, while i admit to having no more than a high school level education in chemistry, i have a solid background in electrical engineering and have been devoting alot of my time to a new and innovative form of particle acceleration.

The guts of it is that in a few years, a knowledgeable and skilled person with a little cash, if they were so inclined will have the ability to generates a sizable flux of neutrons or alpha particles with energies in the millions of electron volts. If you were so inclined you could generate nuclear fuel, but im here asking whether this could be used for smashing up molecules, opening up reduced synthesis pathways or anything usefull in the field of chemistry/drug synthesis.

cheers - TT

 

[Riemann Zeta]

Are you going to hold the world hostage for...one million dollars with your alpha-particle death ray?

This post reminds me of the song 'Rosetta Stoned' by Tool:

"Me, the chosen one? They chose me and I didn't even graduate from fucking high school... But my heart is pounding, 'cause this shit never happens to me. You believe me, don't you? Please believe me...this wasn't all in my head. Such a heavy burden, now to be the one, born to bear and witness all the details that are rendered: to write them down for all the world to see. But I forgot my pen..."

 

[Acyl]

How could this be applied efficiently to organic synthesis?

Or are you just looking for a novel method to discover new chemicals?

Bombarding an organic molecule with a bunch of particles over a constant period of time seems like it would create a unique and very difficult to reproduce set of results every time you tried. What do I know though.

 

[MattPsy]

Sounds like a good way to destroy things, not to make things (though the two are somewhat mutually inclusive). Rather indiscriminate, though.

 

[Adrenochrome]

No this is not practical at all.
If it was possible you'd need to spend even more money on rapidly cooling the system at the precise moment needed.

MAYBE this would work if you yielded some simple things that would polymerize themselves(i'm not talking about drugs).

I'm only a student of organic chemistry, but this idea seems costly and ineffective to me

 

[hussness]

I really could only see this being used to specifically destroy certain cells that are hard to access places, although I'm not sure what advantage this would carry over laser technology. This has nothing to do with organic synthesis though. Did you have anything specific in mind?

 

[vecktor]

this technology could be very useful for making rabiolabelled drugs through neutron activation of bromine or iodine or perhaps even fluorine. though it would be better to synthesise the radio label theadd it to the compound in question so that the drug itself was not chewed up by being hit with ionising radiation.

V