Josh Gavin

Chemistry Graduate Student @robertsgroupumn @UMNchemistry - he/him/his

[Josh Gavin @JoshGavin17]

@UyedaLab That’s great news, congrats @DrSauce96 and all!

[Josh Gavin @JoshGavin17]

This idea was especially inspired by the really cool work on halogen transfer done by fellow @CSBSJU alumnus Jeff Bandar, who’s research I’ve always thought was really exciting and creative! I was hyped to apply that work in the continuing Roberts group arynes lineage.

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Really hyped to share my latest work in grad school focusing on a fun difunctionalization of arynes! @robertsgroupumn we show halogen transfer can install halogens competitive to protons! Thanks to the team @CortnieRoberts and our awesome undergrad Lars!

https://t.co/8cCewPDocj

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@OChem_Grenning @UMNChemistry Congrats Juan and Akash, fantastic news! Well earned for sure! And I love the picture at First Ave 😂

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@ortho_maxb @Merck Congrats Max, that’s great news! Wishing you the best in NJ!! 🙌🏻

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@DrSauce96 I’m really manifesting this energy for some of my substrates rn 😅

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@KyleGPearce @Orgmet_ACS Congrats Kyle, this is an awesome story!

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@Seongboi Jane would be beyond proud.

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@Nik_Burton Nik this is awesome!! Big congrats!!!

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@KyleGPearce @rawssk0be Really cool to see, congratulations Kyle!

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@NMRspectroscopy Legitimate question: don’t atoms in identical environments not couple with each other? Those fluorine atoms look identical by a symmetry plane parallel to the arene, so I wouldn’t have thought they would couple with each other.

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@ndchiappini Ruppert Prakash reagent is my favorite, preps I’ve ran with it have worked so well ❤️ some lovely NMR too!

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@UyedaLab Love to see it, congrats Chris!! @DrSauce96

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@kkhollister19 @AAUW @ChemistryMIT Congratulations Kim! What an accomplishment!!

[Josh Gavin @JoshGavin17]

I found out the other day that there are multiple ways people pronounce “ORCID” and 1) I am shook, but 2) what does #ChemTwitter do?? Asking for science.

[Josh Gavin @JoshGavin17]

@Nik_Burton @DanPolasky @GeiszlerDaniel @TianyangYan Congrats, Nik! That’s super exciting!!

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

(Thread) In the first What If? book, I answered a question about cooking a steak by dropping it from space. At one point, I commented—jokingly!—that if anyone put a steak in a hypersonic wind tunnel to gather better data, I’d love to see the video.

Well, I have good news.

[Josh Gavin @JoshGavin17]

@hotbrother3 Kügelrohr was not something that came to mind but is worth trying!

I like the other suggestions too, I hadn’t thought of it in the frame of removing product instead. Some products might be trace, but I’ll explore that all the same. Thanks!

[Josh Gavin @JoshGavin17]

Q for #ChemTwitter, any magic advice out there on removing PhCN from a reaction? Trying to see if it’s my magic solvent, and it’s not making it easy. Maybe the DMF tricks with LiCl or #TeamHeptane azeotrope can help? #RealTimeChem

[Josh Gavin @JoshGavin17]

@ndchiappini That CCHF seminar from Du Bois was actually what inspired me to try PhCN and tBuCN in the first place!

tBuCN has solubility issues with some reaction components, although I plan to try optimizing those so maybe it’ll improve. Otherwise, xylenes azeotrope? I’ll give it a go 😅