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exsequar

But why's the rum gone?!

Aug 11, 2008 10:24

Hoo boy, it's gonna be a slow day. I wasn't able to run a reaction over the weekend because they turned off the electricity on campus, so I don't have a column to run or ANYTHING. If I'm lucky, setting up a reaction will take up the rest of the morning (a lot of that sitting and waiting for the oil bath to equilibrate) but after that, the reaction ( Read more... )

rl, college, fenlon, summer 08

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ex_rogerpit August 11 2008, 16:27:37 UTC

Have you been watching the current season of Atlantis? They've had some really great episodes so far.

nebulein August 11 2008, 16:42:12 UTC

Hi there *waves*

I'm avoiding studying math because it's math and ewww and just blergh.

thediane August 11 2008, 18:46:13 UTC

I'm also out of cyanoethyltetraisopropylphosphane and thus cannot run another phosphoramidite step until that gets here.

Oh yeah, speak Chemistry to me bb. I kind of miss my Chem days. For the amount that I kind of think Chemistry is awesome, it's kind of hilar that I'm a liberal arts major.

McKay and Mrs. Miller omg ♥

judyjudyjudy August 11 2008, 18:54:14 UTC

Hey sugar! Chem angst aside, it sounds like things are going nicely for you this summer. Excited to get back to school?

hebrew_hernia August 11 2008, 20:24:05 UTC

Excuse me while I waste the next ten minutes trying to draw cyanoethyltetraisopropylphosphane in my head. (Yes, I did just copy/paste that from your entry.) It's going to be difficult, because I don't think I know what a phosphane actually is. Is it like a silane? I think we talked about those once in orgo. But at least I can pronounce the word, which is something.

Which is to say... HI!

exsequar August 11 2008, 20:27:40 UTC

I think phosphane just means an organic compound with phosphorous at the center? I'm not sure. Anyway, there's one element of the structure that is not implied in the name at all, at least not to my knowledge. Maybe it's what the phosphane means. But it's a phosphorus atom with three bonds - one to an oxygen which has a cyanoethyl attached (so, P-O-CH2-CH2-CN) and then two nitrogens, each with two isopropyl groups. Hee. It's the oxygen part that I don't see in the name, do you?

HI! Geek. :)

hebrew_hernia August 12 2008, 11:50:58 UTC

I'm pretty sure a silane is a silicon with an oxygen attached (R-O-Si) because we talked about it as a protecting group for ethers or something, so I think the oxygen is implied. Probably.

Okay, now I'm trying to think of what chemistry you're doing with this. I forget all of organic. I need to go back to my flash cards.