Anyone work in a chemistry lab?

[peterockduke]

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I see tons of people on this site with biology or medical lab experience, but I was wondering if there were people who had worked in chemistry labs (nonclass) during/after undergrad?

If so, what type of lab? (IE organic-polymer, analytical chem etc?)

 

[pbn2au]

While an undergrad I spent the better part of two years in an organic lab. My work pertained to the photoreduction of aryl ketones (benzophenones, acetophenones, etc.) in room-temperature ionic liquids. It was a productive and enjoyable experience. Got a publication out of it (not primary) and another is in the works. It will be interesting to see if med schools care about this at all - there were some pharm. implications down the road, but still...🙄

 

[Rendar5]

3 years in a fundamental organometallic lab.

 

[Moose1]

Yep,

I did a bunch of organic research in undergrad and now I work as a medicinal chemist for a major pharm. company. (organic chemistry) the work is much more interesting and challenging (thus, i get paid a LOT of money) than being a bio tech that runs assays all day long and requires no thinking. (just my opinion, please do not reply to this if you work as a tech with what exactly you do and how it does require thinking and skills!!!)

so far, i've heard nothing but positive things about my job, responsibility and "mastering" of chemistry, which deemed as a harder subject than biology

 

[felipe5]

For 2 years, I worked in an organic synthesis lab working to develop routes to structurally diverse, phosphorus containing molecules as potential MMP inhibitors. At the time, I was a chemistry major, but soon, I realized that a life saturated with columns and NMR's wasn't for me, plus the gap between the work we were doing and what we had learned in orgo 1 and 2 was frickin' huge..........the proposed mechanisms behind our work were way over my head, and thus my level of independance in the lab was practically nil. Needless to say, I'm now dabbling in more physio based research, and I've found that animal models are what i love 😍

 

[jlee9531]

ahh you lovers of ochem research....

live the dream...

props to you all.

 

[ddmo]

Yeah, bioinorganic chemistry and work with lasers.

 

[basupran]

Preformulation lab for a pharm company
lotta physical characterizations, analytical chem....

 

[Skaterbabe74]

Our school seems to have a plethora of chemistry lab workers accepted to med school compared to the bio labs lol. Two of my co-workers in my organic research lab got accepted to med school already this year. I haven't heard so far about some of the bio workers that applied this year tho (One in a genetics lab I know took the aug mcat). Since I was just starting orgo when I got this job for the first few months I was just helping one of my co-workers...learning to distill, run IRs, GC/MS, NMR, and TLC, but I have my own project now. Our boss writes one of the orgo lab textbooks, so I'm working on finding some "quicker" diels-alders that he can add into the book besides what he already has in there. Right now I'm still working on the lit review, but over the break I'll start running some to try and get a few by the end of break that he can use. I'm enjoying my work, learning the process (which is what I really needed), but I am hoping to get into some of the bio labs at some point too, just need some of the classes first lol.

Good luck!

 

[Mrs.S]

organic synthesis, bio-organic synthesis, and bio-inorganic synthesis work here!

 

[drlexygoat]

Natural Products Cancer Research Lab. We work to isolate novel natural compounds from some pretty exoctic plants. Right now the hot one comes from Indonesia and we've got some interesting terpenes and phenolics we're running on the melanoma and breast cancer lines with great results. I spend half my time with the cells and the other half trying to separate the up-teen thousands of compounds we get from these raw extracts!

Mad props to you folks who work on organic synthesis and analyt...