# Thats Dr. Christopher to you **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 7, 2007, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-dr-christopher-to-you/410815 "2007-07-07T04:48:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-dr-christopher-to-you/410815/1 "2007-07-07T04:48:11Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-dr-christopher-to-you/410815/2 "2007-07-07T04:49:34Z")
Congratulations! What kind of work are you going to do with your degree? ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-dr-christopher-to-you/410815/3 "2007-07-07T04:52:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-dr-christopher-to-you/410815/4 "2007-07-07T05:05:31Z")
Sorry I don’t know enough about chemistry to challenge your knowledge. What was the topic of your dissertation? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-dr-christopher-to-you/410815/5 "2007-07-07T05:12:47Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-dr-christopher-to-you/410815/6 "2007-07-07T05:13:33Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-dr-christopher-to-you/410815/7 "2007-07-07T05:18:09Z")
[QUOTE=BoyoJim] If you want to make some big bucks – create and market a new designer recreational drug before if can be classified and criminalized. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-dr-christopher-to-you/410815/8 "2007-07-07T05:25:01Z")
According to what I can gather from the infinite wisdom of wikipedia, you invented really expensive perfume. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-dr-christopher-to-you/410815/9 "2007-07-07T05:33:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-dr-christopher-to-you/410815/10 "2007-07-07T05:36:53Z")
[QUOTE=Christopher] My molecules don’t smell at all. [/QUOTE] Are you hitting on me? ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-dr-christopher-to-you/410815/11 "2007-07-07T05:57:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-dr-christopher-to-you/410815/12 "2007-07-07T13:30:19Z")
Congrats! Dr. twicks ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-dr-christopher-to-you/410815/13 "2007-07-07T13:31:58Z")
Cheers! That’s awesome news. 😃 How do you plan to celebrate? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-dr-christopher-to-you/410815/14 "2007-07-07T13:49:26Z")
[QUOTE=Christopher] Got that? [/QUOTE] 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! ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-dr-christopher-to-you/410815/15 "2007-07-07T14:19:25Z")
Somebody’s read one of my papers, or at least an abstract. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-dr-christopher-to-you/410815/16 "2007-07-07T14:34:39Z")
[QUOTE=Christopher] 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. [/QUOTE] 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) ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-dr-christopher-to-you/410815/17 "2007-07-07T14:37:38Z")
[QUOTE=Christopher] 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. [/QUOTE] Dude, that’s what you got that big fat PhD for! Figure out a way around it! Hello! We’re waiting! ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-dr-christopher-to-you/410815/18 "2007-07-07T14:42:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-dr-christopher-to-you/410815/19 "2007-07-07T15:07:26Z")
Congratulations! I won’t pretend to have any idea what your dissertation means, but i’m sure it means you’re a smarty. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-dr-christopher-to-you/410815/20 "2007-07-07T15:17:45Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. 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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-dr-christopher-to-you/410815.md?page=2)