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UC Berkeley ChemBio PhD Candidate in Schepartz Lab | weirdly big fan of the term “bioorganic chemistry” | Northwestern Alum | 🇵🇷🇭🇰
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Also in @science.org this week, Max Hansmann’s group return with yet another convenient C-atom transfer agent. This time, a diazo/sulfur ylide hybrid favors spiro-type sp3 products from olefins
chemsky 🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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One of the best pieces of advice I got from my old advisor was “you can do all the crazy chemistry you want with the newest, fanciest catalysts but if you can’t purify and analyze what’s in your RBF, you might as well have not done a reaction at all”
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Give me the 200 page PDF or give me death :|
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For those interested, the new route worked :P
In heptanes we trust #chemsky
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Oh I really appreciate when people write out things like this. Beyond just being more rigorous, I’ve also started collecting my favorite crazy preps like this one
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Schrödinger’s grad student #chemsky