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organic chemist | umich ‘24 enthusiast of total synthesis, biocat, and phys org
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Approx. 5 bullets on what I did this past week: - singlet or triplet state - C-H insertion - cyclopropanation - ylide formation - Wolff rearrangement

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Don't forget that the lead compound for vertex came from a library developed in collaboration with the Jin Quan Yu lab at Scripps, using CH functionalization chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

first on-site interview: ✅ feels nice to not have to be interviewing from my apartment 😭

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I am teaching my favorite course again this semester: "Chemical Neuroscience - a Synthetic Approach". We are posting some materials online, check them out. www.traunergroup.org/teaching

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Reading this book 📕 for the third time, might be a blueprint for how Marc Cuban can help build a news 📰 network with journalists like Jim Acosta, who can tell the TRUTH to POWER 💪💪💪 and lead the RESISTANCE 🙏🙏🙏

submitted 26 days ago • 320 comments

Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

submitted 30 days ago • 42 comments

arguably one of my favorite mechanistic sequences in a total synthesis <3

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

first the knowles group and now the yoon group??? skeletal editing is on a ROLL today 🤠

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

absolute BANGER of a skeletal editing & PCET paper 😍

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

If you went to college/uni 1. what was your career goal when you started? 2. your initial major? 3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? 4. what do you do now? 1. physician-scientist 2. biomedical engineering 3. chemE -> physics -> chem 4. tbd 🫢

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

“how’s the job search going?” mass spec position BUT they don’t want chemists and/or people who aim to go to grad school 🫠

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Surviving Your First Week in Medicinal Chemistry Would like to see more perspectives like this in the journal. Going from an academic lab, esp if focused on synthetic organic chemistry, into industrial medicinal chemistry, really is falling through the looking glass.

submitted 72 days ago • 4 comments

currently holding space for my favorite protecting group 💚

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

the day-long interview process can be taxing, but it’s really gratifying to know that people can sense my passion & love for chemistry in the way i communicate my research

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

i’m all for sharing the cool science we do on social media, but why are we normalizing bad habits in the lab?? the idea of working without gloves already makes me squirm, but working with TiCl4 without gloves?! c’mon y’all 😭

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

migrating from the bad place to bluesky has been a joy. rather than seeing incessant fighting over a TV show, now my feed gives me endless posts about cats, corgis, and chemistry — what more could i want

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments