An Open Letter to A New Student
Techniques
Always Triple-rinse Your Flasks
Lab Standard Operating Procedures (publicly available)
Measuring Boiling Points on the Microscale
Measuring Small Quantities of Solids and Liquids
Measuring Small Volumes of Liquids
NMR Solvent Residual Peak Concentrations
Column Chromatography:
The Fundamentals – Dry Loading – Numbers and Measurements – Solvents and Acids/Bases – Solubility of Silica in Methanol – Additional Reading
Solid Phase Synthesis:
Textbook – Large Scale – Small Scale – Verifying Reactions – Purifying Products
Reagents/Reactions
Birch Reduction (guest post by BRSM)
Titrating Organometallic Reagents
Equipment
Kugelrohr – Small Scale Distillation
Vials as Reaction Vessels (Part 1, Part 2)
Computers/Writing
Candidacy/Thesis Defence Preparation
Solving NMR Spectra (Optional Youtube Video)
Writing Outlines of Proposed Research
Career Advice
Canadian Universities and their Chemistry Specialties
On Selecting Your Thesis Advisor
Getting Through Graduate School
Getting Through The “Black Tar” Phase
Candidacy and Thesis Questions
Preparing for Independent Research
Negotiating the Startup Package
Book Reviews
Advanced Practical Inorganic and Metalorganic Chemistry
Advanced Practical Organic Chemistry
FMoc Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis
Getting What You Came For: The Smart Students’ Guide to a PhD
Modern Organic Synthesis in the Laboratory
Light Reading
A List of Compounds Discovered Entirely by Mistake
Traditional Blog Anniversary Gifts
Guest Posts and Other Work
Best of the Annals of Improbably Research Part 1 on Chemistry-Blog
Best of the Annals of Improbably Research Part 2 on Chemistry-Blog
Blogroll: Digital Discourse in Nature Chemistry
Great Research is Dull on Chemistry-Blog
Total Synthesis of Pactamycin on B.R.S.M
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