A big thank you to the dean and dept. head for getting the lab a new box. A double box from MBraun with freezer. It really has a lot more…

We have been getting back into the non-substituted Cp chemistry, which means time to fire back up the photolysis set up. We really want to keep the tubes cold since…

Took a few weeks to get the mini-cart put together to hold all the bits and pieces for the liquid nitrogen para-hydrogen generator. This more or less followed the directions…

I distinctly remember listening to Rich Eisenberg tell me about his para-hydrogen project back in the 1990s. My eyes glazed over as he talked about alpha and beta spins. There…

Is this what they mean when they talk about the good old days in the lab? Drying ether the old fashion way. Sodium dispersion and benzophenone. Dark purple. Not that…

Really nice day to travel to Bucky the Badger-land to attend Nina's PhD defense at Wisconsin. Well done to Nina for finishing in four years. Like there never was a…

For those times when you have to add a solid to the valved NMR tube and you do not want to get a bunch of the solid powder where the…

Pat Fier, UNI alum 2009, gave the 2022 Wilson lecture this past week. An entertaining evening of organic chemistry. Surprisingly, I think all the students were still awake at the…

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You know it is a humid day in Iowa when there is a huge plume of condensation during the N2 fill.