The chemistry club t-shirts are always good for a laugh. I though I would highlight two pieces of clothing that I think have a really cool chemistry connection. The first…

In the previous version of our photolysis set up (Let there be light entry) we were sticking the NMR tubes with our photoactive material in a fluorescent light bulb. The…

In a previous post, I had just introduced the rotovap to the glovebox. The first iteration had the motor facing towards the user, giving the user a limited amount of…

Th is is something I have been wanting to do for a really long time. It is not until I brought an NMR sample into the box that I got…

I visited my old PhD mentor's lab about 10 years ago. In the lab, Bill had a converted mechanical pencil sharpener hooked up to an electric motor that slowly turned…

Finally, the day has arrived when our ACS Omega paper came out. The paper covers the silylation of pyiridine, picolines and quinoline using dirt cheap zinc triflate. No fancy diruthenium…

We often face the difficult choice of how best to separate our compounds in our crude reaction mixture. Prep TLC and distillation are the preferred ones, but each has its…

Commencement 2019 2019 program Extremely proud of our UNI graduates. Always a happy day to see students who have worked in the lab move on to the next phase of…

Trying to make some 3-triethylsilylpyridine to use as a standard for our reactions. Reaction seems straight forward enough. From Glorius and co-workers, Angew. Chemie, 2018, 8297. They used Me3SiCl instead…

Nina and Josh presenting their work at the ACS spring national meeting in Orlando, FL. Nina talking dimethyl phosphine complexes Josh "it's all about the picolines" Prybil Both Josh and…