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  Folks, we're about to reach the highest Dan of Chemdraw, the mastery of which enables you to make molecules without even lifting your ass from the chair. Yeah, dream on.

  Last time I was talking about some basics, and also hotkeys, which are absolutely crucial to productivity in any computer work. Quoting myself, "what ChemDraw really lacks is the hotkeys for switching between different drawing tools" — now I refute this statement. Find a file called CS Chemdraw HotKeys.txt under 赛 风3 安卓版百度云 folder. On XP it's hiding somewhere in the Application Data dumpster, I hope you can find in on a Mac (yeah, I'm a PC, whatever). You can manually edit the hotkeys in there. Here's how I have it set up:

  It's a little funny that these settings sit in a separate .txt file, but this is what we get when we don't provide much needed feedback to the developers. I'm going to write them. Some of them (arrows, brackets) actually don't work.

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  Note how my cursor doesn't even leave the screen to reach for different drawing tools. Note the use of Rotate and Join tools. This was the fifth try, I believe. This is at native speed, try beating my 71 seconds!

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  As one of those spoiled by flash chromatography (and solvent columns), I realized that I forgot when was the last time I distilled anything. After that insane month preceding the ACS meeting, I decided that my homecoming to the hood should commence from distilling furfurylamine, which I use quite a lot as a starting material. No matter what I do, this 250 mL bottle with orange liquid would never end, so I helped it. Not a desperate call for purification in this case, it usually works fine, giving 90+% yields, but it seemed like in a couple of cases the amides wouldn't crystallize because of this colored crap that dragged on from the amine — requiring a column to make it solid.

  I spent a good hour looking for the distillation equipment. I looked everywhere. The only possible apparatus good for about 150 mL was finally assembled, consisting exclusively of the parts occuring only once. It appears that nobody distills things on this scale in our lab. 1–2 L setups and Kugelrohr were much easier to find. I used house vacuum, since the subject boils a little bit too high at about 145 °C at 1 atm. It came out pale-yellow. I used a capillary to bleed in air and was lazy to set it up under nitrogen. But... I took NMR of my fractions. As far as I could tell, all of them contained satisfactorily pure furfurylamine. The brown residue was enriched in some crap, and most of the water came out in the first one. The latter was evidenced by a very broad peak (~0.15 ppm @ half-height) centered at 1.49, as opposed to moderately broad (~0.07) at 1.42 in the main fraction (all in chloroform, stored over calcined, powdered pot carb). And I'm definitely not the winner in "The most original and appropriate choice of an internal standard" nomination. For the absence of mesitylene, 2,4,6-collidine seemed like a good replacement. It is not. Yay long-range coupling.

  It seems like the main justification of these efforts is going to be the augmented aesthetic appeal of pale-yellow over bright-orange.

  In particular, the unexpected appearance in early 1998 of a more thermodynamically stable form (Form II) of ritonavir (Norvir, Abbott Laboratories, protease inhibitor for the treatment of HIV), with different dissolution properties compared to those of the earlier commercial Form I. Form II is <50% as soluble as Form I, resulting in the observed poor dissolution behavior and eventual withdrawal of the capsule from the market. This incident had serious implications for the marketed product and the patients receiving the drug. The project was suspended until a modified procedure was found. Renitidin, sertraline, and frentizole are some important examples of pharmaceuticals that exhibit polymorphism.

  This is from this OPRD ASAP; they were dealing with a similar issue. They have ultimately performed some 3600 recrystallization before they found the right one.
  Reminds me how easy my life is and how badly I suck at recrystallizations.

  I have no idea what it means. But I believe I do know what kind of plants they want to fill the Gobi desert with. Carrots, yeah. For sure. This is probably the most mindblowing abstract I've ever read.

  Keywords: enmein; evaluation of originality; 4-substituted indole; ergot alkaloid; 1-hydroxytryptophan; making desert full of plants.

  As you can see, the project pretty much stalled. I was hoping to make the 100th post special, but at times it seems like I'm overly obsessed with numbers. And with being special.

  Is it November already? Really? Believe it or not, grad school takes up a lot of time. Not that I'm not having any fun, I might actually be having too much, both inside and outside of the lab.

  For instance, someone came in today with a statement about another labmate who recently dyed her hair: "As I was lying naked in my bed this morning, I thought about your hair." Now, isn't it wonderful to work in the environment where you can say that and nothing happens? As it turned out, his thoughts were about using our dye on her hair. The dye happens to be a turn-on thiol-reactive compound, and hair is famous for it's high sulfur content. Of course, instead of dying the hair on her I reached down my pants and pulled out some test subjects we cut a small lock. Pretreated with DTT to break down disulfides it worked beautifully, giving off strong green(ish) light under 365 nm lamp. It appears to be quite stable, too. DIY Dye FTW, and you're all next!

Left—pretreated with DTT, right—uhm, make a guess.
The Eppendorfs look kinda... phallic.

And just for the fun of it, here's an assignment I had. Azadirachtin, baby.

( total synthesis of azadirachtin from azadirachtin, or Twenty-Two Years of Spent EffortCollapse )

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  Merging Photoredox Catalysis with Organocatalysis: The Direct Asymmetric Alkylation of Aldehydes: aldehyde, α-bromocarbonyl compound, 20 mol. % Imidazolidinone™, 0.5 mol. % Ru(bipy)₃Cl₂, 15W household lamp. Boom.