Dr. Ortiz, Your Mom's Favorite Chemist
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Gardening, Gundams, and Games. Big Critical Role Fan. PhD, Auburn '24 | BSc, TAMU '16 | Dog/Cat Dad | Big Wife Guy ( @racheleortego ).
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The world is rough. I'm gonna make a pinned tweet thread of things that make me happy for whatever reason to update at anytime. ☺️
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Rest in peace Tater Tot. Your short little life brought so much joy to so many people with all the memes and the whimsical silliness😭🥺😭🥺
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Chemistry is wiiiilllddddd.
1 g each of 2 constitutional isomers that only differ by 1 atom position.
Color and physical properties are drastically different.
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"there's so many colors in organic chemistry!!!!"
The colors:
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We gotta stop putting the people who are dicks to their students, post-docs, and colleagues up on pedestals just because their work is good.
Stop making excuses for terrible people.
Which of your STEM education related opinions would get you in this position?
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Literature: "Compound is a brown solid."
I think I did it wrong....
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This is what the end of a PhD looks like if you even care
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Rejected from every PhD & MS program I applied to after undergrad.
Got the shot I needed at Auburn w/ Rashad and now I'm a JACS published chemist with more high tier work in the way.
I'm still a bit rough around the edges, but I'm here. I belong and so do you reading this.
I got rejected from almost 40 PhD programs over multiple years of applying.
Prospective students disheartened by how cruel the application process can be: sending you posi vibes!
It can be so difficult especially when you see everyone else seemingly thriving
#AcademicChatter
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In honor of Great British Bake Off coming back soon, I made an organic chemist themed version of the opening ☺️
#chemtwitter
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One of the coolest tricks my advisor has shown me so far is making a "pen" for loading Prep TLC plates.
Glass pipette cut short with cotton pulled tightly through. Load in your sample and boom! Paint!
#chemtwitter
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Organic Chemists... Struggling to copy nature since the first century.
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My first project of grad school is out in Org Lett now!
@robinsondj17
killed it on developing this C6 dearomative functionalization methodology and I knocked out the total synthesis of nuphar indolizidine!
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Writers block be damned. We back on the tok babyyyyy.
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YA BOI'S FIRST FIRST-AUTHOR PUB IS IN JACS BABY LETS GO!!
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The PhD has been fun, the Boehringer internship has been a blast...
But Dr. Ortiz, Process Chemist - Vertex just has a really nice ring to it ☺️
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1) Conc down to an oil
2) Sonicate in n-heptane
3) ???
4) Profit with pure white solid
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The result of my Suzuki coupling looks like a magic potion 😍
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Need one of these for washing my dishes at home fr
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I think I know which fractions have my compound!
(This camera is ridonk.)
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F̵i̵r̵s̵t̵ ̵G̵e̵n̵ ̵C̵o̵l̵l̵e̵g̵e̵ ̵G̵r̵a̵d̵u̵a̵t̵e̵ ❌
First Gen PhD Candidate ✅
Cheers to more chemistry tomorrow and more chances to improve myself as a chemist!
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An internal standard to get crude NMR yields has probably been the single best technique I've learned in grad school so far for organic synthesis.
So so so powerful!
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Easy Prep TLC Loading using a "Pen"!
I previously tweeted out how to turn a pipette into a pen w/ cotton to "paint" samples onto Prep TLCs. Today here's a visual guide with instructions on how to make it!
(Full Video Captions on TikTok)
#chemtwitter
#RealTimeChem
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I'm uploading all of my chemistry STLs rn and this is my favorite thing I've made.
Coffee cup NMR Tube holder with a stylized proton NMR of caffeine.
Free model here:
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Born too late to rip cigs while running ether columns
Born too early to run every single reaction in water with an enzyme
Born just in time to enjoy DCM extractions and then have them ripped from me
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Can finally share my tatts I got for this paper!
One for my methodology arm and one for my total synthesis arm.
The Junimo is from Stardew which rhymes with C2 and the molecule is deoxylasubine who's parent molecule comes from the Japanese Crepe Myrtle.
YA BOI'S FIRST FIRST-AUTHOR PUB IS IN JACS BABY LETS GO!!
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Not a cellphone in sight. Just people living in the moment.
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Whoever showed biochemists this.... I just wanna talk...
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In undergrad I asked my mentor at MD Anderson if I would finally be a chemist when I got my bachelor's.
He said "Nah you're a chemist now. You're doing chemistry literally right now. You're a chemist"
And that's stuck with me ever since.
I'll let you in on the secret: There IS NO undergrad research. There is just research done by scientists currently pursuing an undergrad degree. It is not different than our other research. They are not "lesser" members of the team for not yet having a BSc.
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On a positive note, a 2.5g scale Sonogashira gave 97% yield after purification via EtOAc/Hex trituration and no column. V hype!
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Med chemists be like:
"Well CLEARLY you can see how this OBVIOUS pocket is being filled by this APPARENT binding"
and then show you this:
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I deep cleaned my hood today so according to science twitter I'm now worthy of both love and excellent experimental results.
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This is what doing a Chemistry PhD at an Ivy League looks like...
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The DMSO bonding discussion on
#chemtwitter
is neat. I actually think DMSO bonds like this
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One thing I've had to adjust to during my time at Pfizer, Boehringer, and now Vertex (also saw it at my pre grad school jobs),
No one works like this in an onsite job either. People chit chat, people talk, people hang out. It happens and it's fine.
I’ve yet to meet one person who works from home that actually works from 9am to 5pm with a 30 minute lunch in-between with the occasional bathroom break.
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Should I just purify compounds and not make content out of them? Probably.
Is it insanely fun to make time lapse content put of my work? Definitely.
#chemtwitter
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Hey Chemistry twitter people.
Send me pictures of your fumehoods. I want to make an anonymous Chaotic/Lawful/Neutral/Good/Evil fumehood chart
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My first RTX was amazing! Everyone was so kind and genuine! RT has gotten me through so dark days so thank you all for being incredible! ❤️
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Nothing like an absolutely disgustingly failed column on a Friday afternoon to keep ya humble.
We stay grinding tho 😤
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When I interview for a med chem job and they ask me how I'd assemble a molecule.
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Time lapses of columns are magical.
Especially when your compound is bright yellow and hella easy to track.
Ocular Non-UV TLC ftw!
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Abandonolysis again. Thought it was a thick oil. Left in the glovebox for a few months. It decided to grow into giant chunky crystals.
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Work on some steroids and antibiotics they said....
It'll be fun they said....
CURSE YOU BIG MOLECULE
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*Made a popular post about the colors (lack of) in organic chemistry*
*Reactions then gace me pretty colors as the decomposition products*
Why chemistry gods why.
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Hydrogenation but make it ✨a e s t h e t i c✨
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@PANDORA_NA
Jokes on you my wife loves socks you overpriced shiny rock company cc:
@racheleortego
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IR and Melting Points are perfectly good and perfect analytical techniques that every single synthetic chemist should be using for every single compound they make and characterize. Despite how powerful modern techniques are, they are no match for the historic legacy of IR & MPs.
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In this moment I got to tell
@GameOverGreggy
about the impact/inspiration that the positive and hard work of
#KindaFunny
has had on me and my journey to chase my dreams in grad school.
This community is incredible.
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"Total synthesis is so rich and rewarding! I love it! Couldn't do anything else!"
Meanwhile Total Synth Chemists:
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He didn't like expensive transition metals
And I was fucking Rhodium
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Putting this in my weekly update slides.
Bruh they're never letting me back through these doors lmfao
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Wait she's an older lady with dogs and loves JRPGs?!?!?
Y'all think she's single? 😳😳😳
The Overlord has arrived! Hail the Unicorn! 🦄
Release date NZ today, March 8th. 😀
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Chemistry 🤝 SpongeBob
The perfect TikTok
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This post brought to you by "waxy semi-solids in the glovebox"
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"A solid was formed which could not be identified but was definitely not the desired product."
Mid 1900s papers are wild.
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We saw the Golden Gate bridge today!!!
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Was teaching the niece about organic chemistry over break while working on a poster!
She's gonna be my co-author one day!
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Today's the day! It's the
@LatinXChem
Twitter Poster session! For my
#LatinXChem
presentation in the
#LXChemOrg
category I'm presenting my work on the synthesis of a bioactive natural product Nuphar Indolizidine,
#OC103
. This was my first grad school project and was a lot of fun!
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My funnel really said "nah no columns it's 4 pm on a Friday".
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Mass spec? HPLC? Just rotovap and high vac your 2 mL vial directly!
14/20 to 24/40 adapter with a 14/20 rubber septa over the adapter and an 18 G needle through the septa.
Call me Frankenstein cuz I be creating monsters.
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Why the heck am I developing methodologies when there is probably a turnip that can asymmetrically dearomatize heterocycles :(
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A nice update on a great paper from 2014! Excited to see morpholines break into the top 10 for no reason in particular related to past work of mine😉
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When do I start my "2.49 undergrad GPA to JACS-published chemist" motivational speaking tour?
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Omg that's me 🥺🥺🥺🥺
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I know we should all be working right now, but please enjoyed my "Ode to TLC Plates".
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You want me to characterize a molecule with 25 carbons?
What am I? A Biochemist?
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No don't touch those, those are my emotional support TLC samples.
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Growing as a chemist means understanding your hot plate doesn't need to always be at the max stir rate.
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These recrystallization conditions are terrible, compound oiled out.
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LITERALLY NOTHING ELSE MATTERS TODAY.
☺️🥰😭☺️😳
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Organic chemistry discourse is making its way around twitter again.
Sucks because without organic chemistry I would have never cracked the code on making my very own Cheetos dust!
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In the last 3 months I've now touched both the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean for the first time!
Thx chemistry
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Me staring at our HPLC in real-time as my final compounds refuse to separate.
This paper is so close to finished pls molecule gods.
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My PhD defense is happening today at 8:30 am est / 9:30 am est on zoom!
Let me know if you want a link to it!
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Poorly explain your profession/career.
Here's mine.
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Grad school is tough, science is tough, and the world is tough right now. But presents from
@SigmaAldrich
make it so much better! Thank you! 🥺😍😭
Not a sponsored post at all, but SA chocolate is coming baaaaack! Give their account a follow for a chance to win some on July 7th!
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My hope for 2024 is that I can get a job doing incredible science with awesome people to help others and for the first time in my life not feel guilty about buying groceries. ☺️
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What I see
Vs
What my compound sees
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I wish I could be as happy and cozy as my reactions in a lil sand bath.
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