Really smart guy from Wyoming investigating acidity and basicity in C-H activation. Very similar to what we do
Remember when I said I’d been stuck in a rut earlier?
Well most of that is because I’ve been trying for months to stop a side reaction
As I watched the seminar and saw all of the work that had been referenced in this field, I realized that I didn’t really need to stop the side reaction (yet)
What we have already is still fresh. Still innovative, and still pretty fuckin cool.
And we should publish it.
Sometimes you need to see what others are doing in your field to gain perspective about where you are
When you try for a really long time to figure out a problem and you keep missing, it’s difficult to continue to tell yourself to try again.
Almost everything that happened to the chickens in this paper is happening to us right now and they had strong evidence it would happen. 6 years this paper has been out.