• Question: What compound are you most proud of creating? Have you named it?

    Asked by Lorelei to Aaron, Zoe, David, Sarah on 17 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by im normal lol, molly, matthew, ExplosiveBiskit.
    • Photo: Aaron Acton

      Aaron Acton answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      I made this new polymeric drug delivery system it was a branched polymer that was perfectly symmetrical (dendrimer) which enabled the delivery of two different drugs at certain concentrations to treat cancerous tumours. It took me two years to make so when I got the final compound I was very happy. I didn’t give it any exciting name just a boring chemistry one.

    • Photo: David Foley

      David Foley answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      My boss once challenged me to make a large, complex molecule weighing 1,500 g/mol. Now admittedly my starting material weighed 1,000 g/mol, but my boss still thought it would take me a year or two.

      I started in October and at our group’s Christmas party I gave him a “present” of the compound with all the data associated with it 🙂

    • Photo: Zoe Roberts

      Zoe Roberts answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      I made a liquid crystal in my masters project and I called it TONY as that was the best abbreviation that it could have using the first letters of its real chemical name!

    • Photo: Sarah Ashwood

      Sarah Ashwood answered on 21 Nov 2014:

      Because you have to name things with what the actual molecular make up is it can be quite difficult to come up with interesting names!! Zoe did well to name something TONY – that’s pretty cool!

      I’ve made a new series of triazole compounds using a new route which was pretty exciting. But they aren’t named anything exciting at the moment. They just have numbers associated with then (SA_4_1132B etc…) so it’s pretty lame!!

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