Eating an uncrustable while ironing a shirt for the first time feels like a peak night before your Defense experience

So is it too late to join the apply for postdocs in Europe bandwagon?

Congrats to Mankad Group alum Kyle Brook and his teammates in the Uyeda lab for their fantastic paper in @cp-chem.bsky.social #chemsky
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Sure is hard to get out of bed when it’s like -20° out and your cat is on top of you

Minimum motivation is dropping a 5 gram reaction into the rotovap bath on your last day before the holiday break #chemsky

Bring a sixth year is definitely an experience. All the first years look at you funny at the bars

Went from ligand synthesis being the hardest part of my last project, to all my substrates being compounds used as ligands in my new project. The chemistry gods can be cruel

Uhhh Boiler Up I guess?

Was mostly a lurker on the Other Place but I’ll try my best to shake that here. I’m an organic/organometallic chemistry grad student in the Uyeda lab at Purdue University where I’ve spent my PhD synthesizing azoarenes using dinickel catalysts. Down to talk chemistry, hockey, and most things nerdy

At what point does one stop adding cool substrates to their scope? Asking for a friend who’s gone from 25 to 50 in a few months and really wants to graduate eventually

Love my fluorinated substrates for 19F, absolutely hate them for every other nuclei