There are a lot of reasons to grow crystals in research, but none of them are more important than the journal bump they cause. As it turns out, even collecting a crystal can be its own publication, albeit in a less than interesting journal. Therefore, it is with great efforts that we try to grow crystals.
For those of us in the natural products game, crystals all but remove the ambiguity with any relative stereochemistry. This way, we only have two possible molecules to make. SURE, you can say you’ve made heptacene and stabilized it by various things, but you’re assured a JACS or Angew paper if you can give ‘em a cif file. And since blogs are useless (imho) if they fail to inform, I’ll show you how ‘ol Kyle grows up his crystals.
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