Column of the Month (12/10)
I’ve been collecting pictures of “pretty” columns I ran, so I thought I’d share them with you on a weekly* monthly basis. Maybe I can turn it into a calendar when all is said and done. Most of my columns are colorful, but I don’t run that many, because polymer chemists are ham-fisted when it comes to chromatography. (If the difference in Rf is less than 0.75 forget about it.)
So, to keep this up I’ll need some help. If you have any pictures of attractive or interesting columns that you ran please send them to me at agiantamongmolecules@gmail.com and if they are chosen to be “column of the week month” I’ll send you a prize.
Without further ado here is your CoW CoMy.
I call this the tequila sunrise.
* Let’s be honest. I don’t run nearly enough columns to do this on a weekly basis.
I once put a photo of a column like this in the SI of a paper:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/ja802883k/suppl_file/ja802883k-file002.pdf
I have vowed never to run a column on invisible samples.
I will count that as a submission.
Niiiice! I kinda miss making pentacenes sometimes–the columns were always lovely shades of blue and green.
[...] Happy New Semester Posted in Uncategorized by agiantamongmolecules on January 19, 2011 As the new semester rears its ugly head, reducing available parking space and crowding the elevator (who rides the elevator to the second floor?), I will resume semi-regular posts. I spent the winter “break” meditating on the future of polymer chemistry, while keeping vigil at Hemann Staudingers mausoleum. Unfortunately for you, I never figured out what that future is and I don’t like posting useless snippets (other than this one of course), so I have refrained from posting over the break. However, I should be back in the swing of things in no time, plus I owe you a CoMy. [...]