Academic

Course notes, and reflections on university chemistry course.

This section records my academic development through university coursework, research experiences, and reflections on challenging chemical concepts.

Academic

How My Way of Running a Column Completely Changed

When I first started doing column chromatography, I had a very particular idea of what a “good column” should look like. I preferred to use a long and thin column, with dry loading, and I liked to run it by gravity. To be fair, the separation was usually pretty good. The problem was the time. A single column could easily take me an entire day, and sometimes even two days from packing, running, checking fractions and Continue reading →