The Tour of Collective Wisdom presents:
Sage Advice
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If you want to save time, do it right the first time around
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Golden rule of organic synthesis: Never throw away anything (except into a labeled flask)
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Always keep the supervisor out of the lab
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Measure twice and cut (react) once
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Don't have time to do it right, but have time to do it again?
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Always run a crude NMR
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Never just do one thing at a time.
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Q: What's all that brown precipitate floating around? A: Probably your product. Filter it off and see.
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Never do a column on a friday afternoon
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There is no try... there is do or do not
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Be one with the reaction.
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Scale it up? Go BIG or GO HOME!
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do not reinvent the wheel
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A week in the Library saves a month in the Lab
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Never trust a label.
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Cowboy first. You can be more careful later. And you'll know you have to be in the future.
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Excess equals success.
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Just carry it on to the next step, it'll be easier to purify and isolate later.
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