How to leave a strong impression

Org Prep Daily

I got a summer internship in a natural product synthetic group, a quarter century ago when I was in high school. It was a very nice lab, doing medicinal chemistry on cardioglycosides, and I really liked it there. But I didn’t realize that the PI from the group wasn’t thrilled to have me (he was asked to take some random kid as a community outreach initiative, and he could not turn it down.) So, I was promptly sent out of the way, to the library. In those days, the literature search used to be done with printed indexes of Chemical Abstracts. It was like slogging away through a supermarket shelf filled with phone books;  I spent three weeks doing this.

Undeterred, I was nagging the PI to have me try experimental chemistry. Finally, he would let me prepare an acetylated analog of a frog cardanolide, as analytical standard. He instructed…

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