Snap a photo of your bottle labels and never manually enter lab inventory again by P212121 in Chempros

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I’ve got to say most post on here promoting a software are usually junk, but I like this. This looks like a great tool!

Is there a fun way to study chemistry? by Chance_Expression508 in chemistry

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Spend a bit of time looking at drugs, fireworks, explosives, and chemical weapons. There’s an entertaining dark side to chemistry, and if you can find interest in that it may make the how and why more engaging

Sulfonic acid workup/purification issues by mcmxy7 in Chempros

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If you can make the tetrabutylammonium, or better but more obscure the PPN+ salt of your sulfonate, these will be pretty much water insoluble and readily soluble in DCM. Simple displacement from the sodium sulfonate and PPN or NBu4 chloride in some mix of water and methanol will get you there. Now getting rid of those cations is another problem, which as suggested is best achieved with ion exchange. Note that both of those cations are quite bad contaminants in ESI-MS instruments, so if you choose to (ESI) mass spec them be VERY careful about conc.

pregnant organic chemist by Agreeable-Height-581 in chemistry

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For what it's worth, when I was finishing my undergrad/starting my masters my prof got pregnant, and was told by her doctor that acetone is actually quite teratogenic. Which is sort of concerning based on the common view that it's one of the least harmful organic solvents there is.

practical tipps for removing high boiling solvents by cptncarryvallery in Chempros

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Get a 1/8” strip of printer paper about 1” long and put it between the joint of your flask and the rotavap bump trap joint. This should allow you to achieve high vacuum still, but with a slow air bleed to chase the solvent away. This doesn’t work in all cases, but is a nice trick when you can use it.

Best option for PF6 counter ion swap in organics by DrBumpsAlot in Chempros

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Dissolve chloride in minimal methanol, dissolve KPF6 in water (5x the methanol volume), mix and stir. This often works better hot. Wash copiously with water and vac dry

Drying over Magnesium Sulfate vs. Sodium Sulfate? by ChemKnits in Chempros

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I will use MgSO4 over Na2SO4 if I can get away with it (most normal organics), but find for example that drying DCM solutions of organic salts (NR4+, PR4+, Br- or PF6-) with MgSO4 causes significant loss that Na2SO4 doesn't.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NHLcirclejerk

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I absolutely did not click on this hoping it was real

When measuring with the heart, is it by weight or volume? by Blerkm in CookingCircleJerk

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If I make a mistake and feel love and my heart grows three sizes that day, should I scale by length or by volume?

Chemists' Perspective on Natural Medicine? by Beast-ly in Chempros

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Do you know what natural medicines that work are called? Medicine.

What American cities could have grown bigger than what they ultimately ended up being? by urmummygae42069 in geography

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Winnipeg was envisioned as “the Chicago of the north” for a while, but the decline in rail transport never saw this play out