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I spent most of Friday having someone help me dry and purify a couple solvents as much as possible for a very water sensitive reaction, the formation of the dilthium salt of meso-tetraphenylporphine. I’ve tried to do the reaction several times without a Schlenk line, but the product only lasts long enough for me [...]
It turns out that the motherboard was bad on the cluster node that crashed. After seeing that the node wouldn’t boot up at all, the department’s other computer guy just switched out the CPU and RAM to another motherboard he had in his office. So, the cluster is now completely operational, but the [...]
I went to ask people from a research group on the third floor of my lab’s building to see if they could offer some assistance in setting up some reactions that are very moisture sensitive. They were very helpful, offered some good advice, and are going to help me run some reactions on their [...]
One of the nodes of our lab’s computational cluster crashed a short while ago. I noticed there was a problem when I couldn’t SSH into it to run a Gaussian calculation. I took up the hard drive first to one of the department’s computer guys to check and it needed its file system [...]
Someone once told me: “Nothing says quitter like a Master’s degree.”