I just finished defending my dissertation. I’m going to be a PhD in chemistry! Yay!
Go ahead. Ask me anything chemistry related I can prove it. (Not biochemistry thats different)
Congratulations! What kind of work are you going to do with your degree?
I have no idea yet. I don’t have a job yet, but my wife has a job (also a chemistry PhD) and they really like her so they will work to find me a job. I will be doing synthetic chemistry eventually.
Sorry I don’t know enough about chemistry to challenge your knowledge. What was the topic of your dissertation?
If you want to make some big bucks – create and market a new designer recreational drug before if can be classified and criminalized.
Once you do that, my chemistry question to you will be: How do you make that shit?
The synthesis of iridabenzenes and platinabenzenes from nucleophilic 3-vinylcyclopropenes.
Got that?
basically I made new types of benzenes that contain precious metals in the ring. No they don’t really have much of a practical use.
That’s a pretty tall order the way they clasify drugs these days. They don’t just clasify drugs, but derivatives of drugs are illegal. Besides, it’s good for the short term career, but its tough to enjoy the money when the DEA empounds it and your in jail for life.
According to what I can gather from the infinite wisdom of wikipedia, you invented really expensive perfume. 
Nope, nothing to do with perfume. Aromatic does not mean what you think it means, though thats what it is derived from. My molecules don’t smell at all.
Are you hitting on me?
This is so awesome!
I’m working on a second master’s, which I expect to complete next summer. But somehow, “That’s Master Spectre to you” doesn’t have the same punch. Or maybe it does at that.
Congrats!
Dr. twicks
Cheers! That’s awesome news. 
How do you plan to celebrate?
So, did Vaska complexes and suitably substituted 3-vinylcyclopropenes make for a general route that allows entry into the class of benzenes in which one methine (CH) is replaced by an isoelectronic MLn fragment?
Congratulations!
Somebody’s read one of my papers, or at least an abstract.
A metal instead of a C? Sounds neat, wish I still had access to my simulation programs cos I’d love to get a few pics of them. My only published article was a very fat one using several computational methods to run calculations on biphenylic compounds. Convincing people that my pics were practical and not just pretty took some work; you don’t know what’s the practical use of those rings of yours but there may be someone out there who’s looking for them
Nava,
“BS” in Chem Eng, spec Orgo,
MS in Phys Chem (Theoretical)
Dude, that’s what you got that big fat PhD for! Figure out a way around it! Hello! We’re waiting!
PhD in Chemistry. That is awesome.
I’d ask you a question but I have to admit qualitative and quantitative chemistry memories are filed right next to scary nightmares in my memory filing system, and I never, ever go there.
So congratulations, and enjoy your success.
Congratulations! I won’t pretend to have any idea what your dissertation means, but i’m sure it means you’re a smarty. 
I don’t know how long ago you got your degree but computational methods have advanced quite a bit. We did computations (or collaborators anyway) on the mechanism of formation for these compounds. Maybe I’ll post some pics later.