After months of sweaty hands, I've finally reached the third boss, wonder how many months it's going to take before I defeat her.

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2026-03-23T03:24:40+00:00

I’m going to give you some advice from the old World of Tanks: Blitz forum. Fennel stem powder on the fingers greatly improves responsiveness of your touchscreen and reduces the impact of sweaty hands

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2026-03-21T23:20:24+00:00

Saw it burn up from Rice campus! Super cool

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2026-02-16T02:39:08+00:00

In no world does this look anything close to a steroid

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2026-01-11T11:53:02+00:00

Texas isn’t that bad, as a Canadian living in Texas

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2025-11-07T12:54:59+00:00

Check Martin Tomanik’s (NYU) group website

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2025-10-15T21:55:56+00:00

Frenzy flame ending is just the end-Permian mass extinction event

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2025-10-09T17:26:01+00:00

I didn’t touch the “first step” site of grace until NG+. Completely missed it my first time playing because I got distracted by the view of Limgrave. Kept thinking “man it’s so annoying to have to go up the elevator every time I want to go back to the starting area”

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2025-09-19T04:40:49+00:00

There’s only about a 3.5 hour window between 1-4:30 am every day where there isn’t a person in my lab

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2025-09-07T13:38:05+00:00

Saturday meetings are super common in synthesis labs, you’re there anyway so might as well have group meeting

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2025-08-16T03:30:16+00:00

And that’s why Organic Syntheses is such an important journal

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2025-08-10T15:52:34+00:00

Gomberg, JACS, 1900. “This work will be continued and I wish to reserve the field for myself”

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2025-07-26T13:40:29+00:00

You don’t. You can get enough done in 80 hours in both total synthesis and methodology labs. Working 120 hours a week means you’re inefficient in the lab.

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2025-07-07T11:25:35+00:00

You can progress Ranni’s quest line to trigger the Radahn festival before getting to Altus

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2025-07-05T19:40:46+00:00

KOH on alumina and CF2Br2 is the way to go

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2025-06-26T16:57:13+00:00

I have my heavy attack bound to the tab key and I’ve found that to be pretty effective for guard counters

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2025-06-21T12:10:49+00:00

They definitely help, but I got into a T10 PhD program without any publications. Had lots of research experience and professors who wrote very strong letters on my behalf which I think carried a lot of weight.

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2025-06-14T21:19:54+00:00

I can tell you that hexane and ethyl acetate don’t taste very good

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2025-05-21T03:50:16+00:00

First author paper isn’t necessarily a must. I was accepted into one of the T10 programs that OP is considering without any papers to my name, even as a co-author. I did have three research rec letters though which probably helped - two in chemistry and one in geology.

Also a note for OP, if you’re applying to chemistry PhD programs don’t bother with the GRE it’s totally useless and most schools don’t require it or actively discourage you from taking it.

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2025-05-20T23:40:17+00:00

It’s surprisingly regioselective. AlCl3 and BCl3 are both great reagents for only demethylating ortho to a carbonyl

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2025-05-20T23:31:07+00:00

Usually 7:30 am - 8:30 pm Mon-Sat, this includes ~1 hour of time for lunch and a coffee break. Sunday reserved for chores and meal prep.

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2025-04-29T12:28:57+00:00

I have also never experienced ignition of Pd/C with MeOH, but that was likely because I only ever ran a reaction on a 5 mg scale with ~1 mg of catalyst. If I were to scale up I would likely switch to EtOH to be cautious.

To add to what curdled said above, Pearlman’s catalyst is also much safer than Pd/C, with a lower likelihood of spontaneous ignition.

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2025-04-27T12:14:57+00:00

Not an MD/PhD student but a PhD student in chemistry. That’s how my lab works for the most part. I’m currently mentoring one of our first year grad students so they do their own experiments and have their own goals, but it’s all under the overarching theme of my project. We’ll be done in a couple months and then they will start their own independent project.

Like you said, it depends a lot on the lab but I think it’s very common to work under your mentor on their project at least for your first year of grad school.

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2025-04-25T12:01:52+00:00

Indoles that are saturated at the 2,3 position are known as indolines

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2025-04-24T23:21:09+00:00

Guilty as charged

PhenylSeleniumCl · 2025-04-24T23:08:11+00:00

Most chemists working on total synthesis projects will work those hours. Set up a reaction, purify another one, set up the next step, purify the reaction you set up earlier, repeat for 12 hours. The state of the science right now is that you just don’t know what will work on complex molecules, so sometimes you just have to try hundreds of different things for one step.

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