A Good Day In Lab!

Why you ask? Well the reasons are multi-dimensional (we'll start with the most important!)

1) A passed her orals (with flying colors I might add)...so that means were are going out to celebrate tonight!

2) I was attempting the synthesis of 4'4[[(Trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl]oxy]-2,2':6',2"-terpyridine from the pyridone and triflic anhydride (JOC, Vol. 56, No. 15, 1991), so basically you add the reagents, stir at RT for 48 (!!!) hours and then pour into ice-water and filter. So you were supposed to get a light brown solid....and mine was white....usually in chemistry you want a white solid and you get light brown. So,  I dissolved in hexanes and then evaporated and took an NMR....and this is what I got:

(What is this you might ask? Well, it is terpy-triflate!!)

3. It was so B-E-A-UTIFUL here today!

My least favorite picture of the day, but pretty clouds out of the lab window!

A pretty, pretty tree I pass everyday into lab

A B&W of said tree

And with that...off to celebrate! Happy Thursday!