Leah Lowder

Kicking off #recrystallizationwednesday with these dancing crystals 💃💎 check out the slow growing ones on the bottom 😍🤤

More recrystallizations today! They almost look like little yellow pop-rocks 🍭🍬 #crystals #crystalformation #recrystallization #organicchemistry #orgchemistry #organiclab #organicchem #chemist #chemistry #chemistrylab #chemistryresearch #research #gradschool #yellow #yellowcrystals #beautiful

my kind of Friday night building DNA! 🤓 #DNA #orgchemistry #organicchemistry #organicchemist #dnagenetics #dnakit #molecularmodel #modeling #science #chemistry #biology #biochemistry

Short path vacuum fractional distillation of a benzyl protected amine #synthesis #science #laboratory #orgchem #orgchemistry #organicchemistry #chemist #chemistry #chemistrylab #distillation #fractionaldistillation #vacuum #vacuumdistillation #cow

So beautiful and colorful... turned out that the crystals are actually clear, but the solution is pink, with a yellow spot at the bottom. Reminds me of a flower 🌺 #orgchemistry #chemistry #recrystallization #reactions #organicchemist #organicchemistry #laboratory #crystals #crystalformation #biochemistry #synthesis #syntheticchemistry #science #beautiful #lookattheblue

Final crystals from the previous recrystallization picture after filtering 😍 #organicchemistry #orgchemistry #science #recrystallization #crystals #finalproduct #chemistry #chemistrylab #filtration #lookattheblue

Trying to recrystallize? Try concentrating your compound in DCM if it's soluble and then gently drop in pentane...but don't disturb the layers by trying to mix them together, the crystals will slowly grow as the two layers exchange with one another. Finally got this method to work and came back to these beautiful crystals 😍 #orgchemistry #organicchemistry #chemistry #chemistrylab #lookattheblue #recrystallization #dichloromethane #heptane #glassware #crystals #solvents #art #science

When the Argon balloon gettin' low #organicchemistry #orgchemistry #chemistry #lookattheblue #smile #thuglife #thurday #happychemistry #dryreactions #sigmaaldrich #laboratory #lab #science #deflated #tlc #work #gradschool #art #balloonart