Awaiting your precious spots - pure excitement
As an organic chemist working in a research lab, I spend most of the time running reactions that had never been run or casualy touched by anyone. One could truly say we are creating future by our synthetic endeavours. New materials, life-saving medicines, pesticides, fungicides, food additives are in large result of countless hours spend in the laboratories of research institutes. This is what happened yesterday: Prior to my “microwave trip”, I prepared my tin-complexed sugar compound then, lyophilized it, so in the morning it was safe and sound for my selective alkylation taking place in a microwave reactor at the Institute of Macromolecular chemistry. TLC analysis made me wonder if everything went all right, as I was marching from the institute to my “home” institute. Two varying reaction conditions were performed, the one that I was to repeat after previous successful trial (MW 30 min 80°C, 90°C, 110°C, 130° C ) did not turn out as wished. Where is the spot? Where is t