Mechanism Mar. 16, 2013

Solution after the jump!

The Press Corpse

The press scribble scribble every half-truth spoke then shoot it round the country like an April Fools joke

Why not a semisynthesis?

What is a typical experiment in the Baran lab?

Ever wonder what a jelly bean does in organic solvent? Now we know.

Happy International Women's Day!

In honor of International Women’s Day I decided to post about what it’s like to be a woman in the Baran laboratory.  I was put up to this by my male peers.  I am currently the only female graduate student; we also have two female post-docs (who are awesome).  On an average day, I actively ignore sexist remarks made by insensitive colleagues, endure creepy co-workers in my lab hitting on me, and politely decline flagrant displays of male chauvinism cleverly disguised as chivalry when peers offer to bring the 20 liter of chloroform up from the first floor to the fourth.  Just kidding: the first case never happens, the second case only happened for the first few months and the third case, well, I let them carry up the chloroform.  

Too Much Time On My Hands

What YOU think of Phil Baran

Woe-Be-Gone

We'll start things off with our lab's recent synthesis of ouabagenin. We'll skip the biological relevance of the molecule for the purpose of this blog and go straight to the actual synthesis.