Thursday, February 25, 2010

3-second rant at self

2 laboriously prepared reagents.
1 mistake.
1 sad Echiral.

Dammit, I added the deprotonated form of my reagent instead of the protonated form. Sigh. Wasted a clean (dry!) flask of the right size, 100 mg of crazy-sensitive (and limited!) reagent, 113 mg of clean deprotonated compound, and 2 hours of time. (An in-situ protonation won't work.) Boo, hiss.

On the bright side, although no reaction should happen to the current mess, there might've been a slight colour change. Maybe. Or maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me.

After I reset this reaction, I think it's time to go home.

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