The Professor Wenthold

One of my favorite memories of Phil. Our pet rats always end up with tumors so I asked Phil, 'Do you have anything at Endocyte that can cure mammary tumors in rats?' We got a chuckle out of it. He said he'd look into it. Last few times I talked with him he couldn't stop talking about LIFT

Phil Low, Purdue drug discovery scholar and impactful innovator whose discoveries saved lives, dies at 78 WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University drug discovery scholar and faculty member, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Philip Low, whose life’s work turned laboratory discoveries into therapies that…

Very saddened at the loss of our esteemed colleague.

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But in 1900, it was sufficiently unusual that it had to be stated in the paper that he built it. I just find that fascinating.

Everybody likes to quote Gomberg's statement in his original JACS CommEd ("I wish to reserve the field to myself") but my favorite part is where he explains how he had to create an apparatus to exclude oxygen and water. In today's era of Schlenk lines and glove boxes, this is routine

Radical chemistry pioneer Moses Gomberg probably made a trivalent carbon years before he realised Recreation of Gomberg's experiments suggests that he may have made a hypovalent carbon species years before reporting their discovery

Great article about Moses Gomberg and trivalent carbon including comments from Bart Kahr and Peter Schreiner

Radical chemistry pioneer Moses Gomberg probably made a trivalent carbon years before he realised | Research | Chemistry World share.google/sRLMpfl0xN0V...

I had a dream last night about this molecule. In the dream the question was what is the name, but it's got me fascinated because we are talking about carboxylic acid derivatives and this is a bicyclic lactate? Could it be synthesized from the alpha, omega amino acid? Should I put this on my exam?

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Seriously, how far off the rails does it have to be for them to rule against him? Of course, we knew it was going to come out that way which is why they sat on it a month instead of releasing it when it was done. They gave themselves time to figure out a way to make it work but couldn't

I might be losing my perspective. Happy Friday! 4/4

Some days I feel that way about my organic lecture. Today I talked about reducing your grandmother with LAH, laser tag in the woods at an ACSSA party and finished up sticking my tongue in a glass of Coke until it was numb (Coke/tongue challenge). 3/4

"The Producer said we had lost our perspective. I don't know, he may have been right. When we started, I was wearing a tux. By the end, I was wearing a kilt with tails, a football helmet, and a holster with a rubber chicken in it."

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I remember seeing an interview with Chuck Barris a few years back talking about the Gong Show:

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There's a reason why the Olympic Village has basically an unlimited supply of condoms. I haven't connected the dots exactly but i think it's related to your cimm

You dont even need a ticket to board a train! Granted it might be an issue when the conductor comes by but you can even buy tickets from them often these days. You get on train, find a seat, when the conductor comes by you show them the ticket on your phone. Easy peasy.

What I hear from Williamsburg is that it wasn't actually a goose (Canada or otherwise) but was actually a camcorder. If you watch the video of him getting on, it doesn't look like he has a camera but the thought it was one of the other passengers who got on with him

Got a random text this week asking if we would consider offers on our house. I told them we weren't looking to sell, but we'd take $10 mil (it's not worth that). They actually replied ("no worries") but no counter-offer. I told my wife, I'd could go as low as 5 mil....

ChemEs!

Children's Literature
History of Math
The worst Electronics course ever (never really got past RC circuits - how can you take college Electronics and know nothing about how a transistor works or what it's used for?)
Complex Analysis (so cool)
Contemporary Political Problems (bad prof)

Except, of course, Quantitative Analysis. Of all things

I love cyclic allenes. Rich Johnson told us all about the bonding back in the 80s.

Curse you Valentine's Day and your damned Cinnamon Jelly Hearts!

Now I'm curious - which Nobel prize winners were Lewis students? I need to look into this

Ooooo I like the Neptune fountain in Bologna. Probably my favorite in all Italy

I had a student who said I was like that "inconceivable" guy on The Princess Bride. He put it in the teaching evals and in RateMyProfessor

Picard maneuver?

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I need to get back to NYC to hang out with these guys again...

Man, I need my Atari 2600!!!!!

If we want evening exams we have to justify why we need 2hrs instead of 1 class period. For organic I always say that they use model kits and I want to assess them on how well they understand the material and not how fast they put models together

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