A large 2000cm3 flask on our oldest and smallest rotavap, hope that it won’t break :D

9:30 pm  •  24 March 2013  •  20 notes

Some gunk at the bottom of the flask… Nearly 50% of my substance is there):

9:30 pm  •  23 March 2013  •  9 notes

Just made an enantiomer separation with an organic base similar to quinine, hope that it will work.

Anyone wants to drink a tonic water? :D

9:30 pm  •  22 March 2013  •  11 notes

Chemistry made with really large amounts is always much-much better than working with milligrams(:

9:30 pm  •  21 March 2013  •  35 notes

This looks so horrible. Only 30g substance in an 500cm3 flask an it looks like a foam.

The good point: if it’s pure than I had a 80% yield reaction!

9:30 pm  •  20 March 2013  •  12 notes

Started from a transparent liquid just before chloroform was added and dichlorocarbe evolved. I hope that the reaction will end up with something useful.

Dichlorocarbene is a highly reactive carbene what is usually generated in situ from chloroform with a stong base.

9:30 pm  •  19 March 2013  •  12 notes

Isocyanides could be identified from 3 things: 

1: their strong, unpleasant odor

2: their high fluorescense under UV light

3: the headache what they cause when you accidentally contact them

But at all, this looks fairly nice(:

Have You seen my portfolio? It’s over here: http://labphoto.tumblr.com/tagged/portfolio

9:30 pm  •  18 March 2013  •  48 notes

Vacuum distillation with micro amounts.

The whole stuff was 3g and there was 3 fraction. 1-st fraction between 60-80 Celsius, second between 110-120 Celsius and one above 200 Celsius. The problem: 800mg of distillate was collected, because the distilling solution polymerized into the flask above 100 Celsius):

9:30 pm  •  17 March 2013  •  19 notes

Originally it was a green solution, somewhy the cam saw it blue. But is still looks cool(:

9:30 pm  •  16 March 2013  •  26 notes

Just a flask, nothing special.

9:30 pm  •  15 March 2013  •  6 notes