Three Dollar Quill

Sleeping eventually cured everything that was wrong with me yesterday, so now I'm pondering one of the tricky bits of any "making up chemistry" endeavor:

• Now that I've got an oxygen equivalent, I've got a hopeful water equivalent.
• I'm confident but not certain of the bond structure in the water equivalent.
• I have no idea whether any possible bond structure allows for a less-dense solid phase, or what parameters to tweak to get there.

On the plus side, I do have a basic picture of how organic chemistry "should" work. Where three-dimensional organic chemistry gets a lot of mileage out of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, the stuff I've worked out in four dimensions has five elements in the place of these four, with rough equivalents to each, plus one that acts sort of intermediate between nitrogen and oxygen. The additional element is necessary because of the greater number of bonds available in four-dimensional space.

So, the more oxygen-like one would create ethers with two functional groups, but ketones with three, while the intermediate would create ethers with three functional groups, but ketones with two. (Or maybe the ethers wouldn't be as important, considering that I didn't find "ethers but with nitrogen instead of oxygen" when I looked just now. But there would be two kinds of amide, probably. Or, various kinds of amide. Oh man, I'm imagining all sorts of horrifying bond structures now...)

Anyway, I should get ready for bed, and to shift gears in a few days...

Good night.