I'm halfway though week 4 at the Buccella Lab at NYU. We are continuing to test our probe that we made. On Monday we took more tests using the UV Vis spectrometer. We call our probe JG-1-101. In the tests we took we filled 4 cuvettes. Cuvette 1: JG-1-101 and Acetonitrile, Cuvette 2: JG-1-101, butylurea, zinc trifluoromethanesulfonate, and acetonitrile, Cuvette 3: JG-1-101, zinc, and acetonitrile, Cuvette 4: JG-1-101, butylurea, and acetonitrile. We tested each of these cuvettes to see the pattern in absorbance v. wavelength. The wavelength at which the highest absorbency is should change if the zinc or urea binds to the compound.
This graph ^ shows that zinc did bind to the compound. You can tell that it bound to the compound because there was a shift in the wavelength.
This graph ^ shows that the butylurea did not bind to the compound because there was no shift in the wavelength at which it has its highest absorbance.
Last week we were making more of our compound JG-1-101. When we created the reaction at a high heat thus causing crystals to crash out of the reaction when it returned to room temperature. We took an NMR of these crystals today and found that they were a very pure form of our compound!
Nice work! Sounds like you are doing some serious organic chemistry! Can't wait to talk to you about your work in more depth!
ReplyDeleteAP Chem definitely helped me understand this stuff! Thanks!
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