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Asst. Prof. at St. Lawrence U. Organic chemist making and breaking polymers. Mostly here for pictures of cats. he/him/his, https://lutzpolymerlab.weebly.com/
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Fortunately(?), I don't have many students trying for this year's cycle...
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what won't be worse then tbh
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I have bad news for you about Civil War (2016).
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We were told that we couldn't have the western salon, because it was a reference to a western saloon, which is a place where people drink alcohol.
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We were told by the powers that be that we couldn't depict a saloon, because that is a place where people drink alcohol. Not wanting our hard work to go to waste, we changed the sign to instead advertise a "western salon." We intended to decorate it with cowboys sitting around getting perms.
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I went to a conservative Christian high school. For our spirit week, each class would decorate a portion of the hallway to fit a chosen theme. One year, our theme was Cowboys, so we made a sign for a "western saloon."
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This object, which is the size of a small boulder, was completely blocking east-bound lane Highway 145 mm78 at Silverpick Rd.
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Perhaps this is what Andre the Giant felt like when eating a regular chip.
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Idea: a personal rage room for Andre filled with rhenium mugs.
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they should make you a custom Sn mug
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I got through fluorine. #7-9 are made of some material that overheats the handle in the microwave, rendering them virtually useless for me when I make my little chai latte each morning.
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Why the hell is the NSF still complying with orders that have been both blocked by a judge and rescinded??
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Will have to investigate further the next time I drive the 401 back to Michigan.
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I am jealous that you are mere miles away from DETROIT-STYLE PIZZA.
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Can't say it's a favorite (yet, anyway!), but Carl Zimmer has this coming out next month. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724793...
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I do this too. I've never gotten any complaints about it (perhaps because vanishingly few people are reading the textbook).
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I wasn't that funny on the old app either.
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Are you sure this isn't a PXRD?
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Happy to send Word/Chemdraw files if they'd be useful!
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I have a bunch of o-chem problems on my website at lutzpolymerlab.weebly.com/resources (that I need to get back into the habit of updating). They are pitched more for advanced undergrads but could be good review for early grad students.
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c.f. Philomena Cunk's pronunciation of E = mc^2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFxT...
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tbh I do the same with mCPBA
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does this mean that posting cat pics is patriotic
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I teach imine/enamine formation as activating the C=O via hydrogen bonding, which makes me feel a little bit better. And I tell students that it's also to help prepare them for the types of proton transfers they'll see in biochem.
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The textbook mechanism that bothers me the most is imine formation... ain't no way you're protonating a C=O with free amine still around. Lotta sloppy mechanisms that fall apart if you think about the pKas too closely.
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I don't have a reference but I think of it more as forming the trialkylborate ester and then doing ligand exchange with solvent to release the free alcohol (though I probably wouldn't teach that in a sophomore level class).