What hS said. Especially since we're working with uber-complicated molecules. If we hadn't run what we thought we had, figuring out what we had run would have taken considerably longer than either of us realll have time for.
Our NMR machine was incredibly temperamental and prone to breaking down, even when handled by skilled professionals. Needless to say, we lowly undergrads with our grubby paws were never even let in the same room as it.
Our spectrometer is reasonably well behaved, though the software is prone to the meddlings of the Lab Gremlins. Even so, the Orgo I ad II students don't get to use it. Ad Lab III students do, though.
The acetone was not very nice. Tricksy solventses, they takeses the precious. If we'd been using acetone-D it wouldn't have mattered much, but acetone-D is ridiculusly expensive, so one generally doesn't use it to clean one's glassware.
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I understand (if not comprehend) most of that, but I'm wondering why it's so bad to possibly have run the wrong molecule.
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I find the story utterly hilarious.
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Our NMR machine was incredibly temperamental and prone to breaking down, even when handled by skilled professionals. Needless to say, we lowly undergrads with our grubby paws were never even let in the same room as it.
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The acetone was not very nice. Tricksy solventses, they takeses the precious. If we'd been using acetone-D it wouldn't have mattered much, but acetone-D is ridiculusly expensive, so one generally doesn't use it to clean one's glassware.
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