Finally got to move back into the "new" old lab. Had to take the front window off the MBraun box for it to fit through the doorway. Which became a…

Do the liquid nitrogen dewar manufacturers ever use their products? These things are a bit unwieldy to manage when trying to lift them, full of liquid nitrogen. You usually want…

Time to make some Ru3(CO)12, aka triruthenium dodecacarbonyl. Prep from Lavigne, Chem. Comm., 2003, 1578-1579 RuCl3xH2O Some CO, heat, time. Lovely orange solid  Ru3(CO)12 before filtration And H2O and CH3OH…

  Every evening we lovingly purge the glovebox to keep it nice and pristine. We leave the pressure a bit high to keep the oxygen from leaking in. And every…

Tell Professor Manfredi that he can have my vacuum pumps when I am gone from this earth.  No, no, no. Not that kind of end. The end of the construction…

Since we are currently occupying a biochemistry lab, one of my colleagues uses the biochemistry shaker for his natural products chemistry. I have no idea what he is trying to…

Every now and then, when the group is big enough, I try to get t-shirts made for the group. Here are some past designs. From 2010, when we first got…

How did this happen? We made it into the virtual issue of Organometallics highlighting undergraduate research Here we are, listed in the table of contents It is our paper from…

Last summer Nina would write these daily (or was it weekly) inspirational quotes on the lab blackboard. Quotes from Einstein and other luminaries peppered the lab consciousness. Here is what…

When I first saw this,   my first thought was that the student, who shall remain unnamed to protect the innocent (initials JCK), did not do a very good job…