/sci/ - Science & Math

>>7415667
Yup, but then I try to talk to them about the actual mechanisms of the reaction. The HI andd phosphorus one that is. I think there's a way to do a reductive amination after coupling methlamine with phenyl acetone, but I'm not sure if that's what they do in Breaking Bad.

My goal is to either inspire chemistry on them or bore them into never asking that question again.

Ochem get in here

Hey guys, where do you get your books and such? I know /lit/ has their #bookz irc, but do you guys know anything for scientific literature?

Alternatively, I'm trying to couple some boronic acids (mostly small aryl boronic acids) with a-glucopyranose. I've read quite a few papers trying to ocuple them in buffered 1:1 water/methanol solutions (with a pH of around 7-8),and I was wondering if you guys thought anything different. It seems as though most coupling occurs around a pH of around 8, but I've seen a couple of papers that were able to do it around 5, too.

Any ideas for buffered solutions?

>>7184397
Orgo isn't that hard--just don't be a faggot and try to memorize everything. If you understand ochem, you'll start noticing that basically everything is either an electrophile or nucleophile, and then know the pKas and the reactions just kind of work themselves out when you start arrow pushing.

>>7179811
Not chemE, i'm getting a degree in biochem and work in an organic synthesis lab. You're a slave to what the PI in the lab will let you do, but if you're smart and come up with some reasonable synthetic method, you'll probably be allowed to try it.

Tedious? Sometimes no, and sometimes it's tedious as fuck. Try spending two days running a birch reduction, working it up, concentrating it, only to find out you lost your product in the rotovap. It sucks. Columns suck too, and CNMRs can be a bit of a bitch. Learning HNMRs takes a bit too, but they get easy pretty quick.

It's tedious, but a lot of fun doing chemistry no one has ever done before.

>tutoring pchem

>>7085939
Shes student teaching 12th grad calc and says she really enjoys it. I tutored a lot of them when I was an undergrad and some of them are pretty committed, but yeah most just want to teach algebra and precalc. Still I usually find a way to, "get through," to my students but she is taxing my reservoir of ideas for this...