Lab - Blog Posts

Purification of the “bad blood” from yesterday. 6 hrs later, the column is done and clean, and I’m in bed with Netflix and pizza after 2 looooong days in a row. Thank goodness!

Matching your balloon to your reaction is important. #aesthetic

This week in “TBDMSCl crystals”

Someone said this looks like blood and now I have “bad blood” stuck In my head please don’t judge me

Brine is your friend 

*gags then googles how to get rid of an emulsion*

Double, double toil and trouble;

Reaction stir and oil bubble.

Check out the colors on this one!

Sometimes I get lucky on the rotovap and end up with beautiful crystals.

(I am now realizing that all of my coolest chem lab pictures are related to crystallization...)

pH strip I think you’re confused

Spidery crystals appeared after rotovap-ing. I think they look like dandelion fluffs.

Miniature biology class by Teeny Tiny Things Manila !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Lovely crystallization effect from an extraction the other day

Stir, baby, stir