IIRC, of course. It’s 10pm here, lol

It was a lit. procedure! For us, the key was to use ethylene glycol as the solvent and heat the everloving bejeezus out of it after hydrazone formation. If you’d like, I can track down the reference from my personal Zotero later

Has anyone ever actually run a Cannizzarro *intentionally*?

Let he who has actually done a Clemmensen reduction cast the first stone

Was an academic lab BUT the downstream chemistry was so sh!t I needed a lot of material to not be making it every week

Labmate did (and I considered) a Wurtz with a,a’-dibromo-o-xylene to make the dibenzocyclooctane. Sure, it technically proceeds via a different mechanism but everyone called it a Wurtz coupling.

Yes! FC acylation/WK reduction was the most convenient/cheapest way to make long-chain 4-dodecylbromobenzene in high purity and scale.

Thankful that someone engaged in some #ShitProsting form my Bday.

The scalp sweat is a sign of pious redemption

The light of the nine lives!

These are so STINKIN’ CUTE!

I brought this one out at the table and, if I do say so myself, this is some of your best work Cole!

When the glass surface ends up being your stoichiometric foe, those scaleup yields feel wondrous!

I can make > 10^7 different molecules by pyrolysis of some plant material in a few seconds

The hard part is *isolating* and *identifying* that stuff.

While I can’t believe I’ve never gifted folks your merch, fortunately it means everything’s on the table!