(Originally written 2004–06-15 12:32)
I am making plastics. Or not, depending on whether the chemistry gods smile on me. Today, they do not.

I’m really filling in gaps for a poster that I have to present next wednesday(!), so wanted to have complete tables of the activity of the various catalysts that I’m working on. I’ve just run the one I’d left until last – and it looks like it’s done nothing. Which is okay, because that’s really what’s expected.

More worrying was that I’ve been getting inconsistent results with a very good catalyst – Zirconocene dichloride. Problem is that it’s so good that you have to use very little of it, and it then doesn’t take very much to kill it off. Oh well.

Get nice graphs from the data when it does work :-)

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