Patrick Lutz

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Asst. Prof. at St. Lawrence U. Organic chemist making and breaking polymers. Mostly here for pictures of cats. he/him/his, https://lutzpolymerlab.weebly.com/

Portion of a table from a paper listing "examples of potentially pointless stereoselective syntheses from recent literature."
Photo of a desk set up for video recording.
Screenshot from a lecture video on cyclohexane derivatives.
Screenshot from the Wikipedia article for Fred Baur, an organic chemist known for "designing and patenting the Pringles packaging."
TOC graphic showing the reaction under study.
Chemical structure of 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-tetracyano-1,4-benzoquinone dimethane.
Screenshot from a Reaxys search.
An abomination of a chemical structure featuring eight bonds to carbon.
Screenshot from Olivia Rodrigo's "The Cure" music video, featuring her standing behind a chemistry-ish glassware setup.
A box of soccer-themed Ritz crackers that sort of look like there is a Cp* ligand on them.
Two tupperware containers of blackberry crumb bars.
Screenshot from the ACS Quick Style Guide.
Logo for "Taco Bell Business School," which is a thing, apparently.
Photo of "Ginger Evans" brand rainbow sprinkles.
Product listing for 2,6-diiodonaphthalene (a decidedly achiral compound) described as min 99% ee.
Table from a paper listing "examples of potentially pointless stereoselective syntheses from recent linterature."
Text reading "Organic chemistry: anything bonded to more than 4 atoms is highly unusual. Probably just a mistake in the drawing" followed by a photo of a cat representing a transition metal absolutely covered in packing peanuts labeled CO.
Photo of a white board asking students to vote whether Dr. Schreiber likes frogs more or I like cats more.
Cover of a guidebook for an organic chemistry course with a wildly erroneous molecular structure.
Chart showing grant funding at NIH for the first 100 days of several presidents. The current administration's funding is less than half that of the next-highest.
Photo of a paper entitled "Zika virus protection by a single low-dose nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccination." In the author list, names are highlighted to show that 5 authors worked at NIH and an additional 10 were funded by NIH.
Timeline of events leading to lipid nanoparticle enabled RNA vaccines. From Nat. Rev. Drug Discov. 2024, 23, 709.
Synthetic route to ALC-0315, an ionizable lipid used in mRNA vaccines.
Upside-down photo of icicles resembling a nonet signal in NMR spectroscopy.
Screenshot from Wikipedia showing other names of potassium permanganate as "chameleon mineral," "Condy's crystals," "permanganate of potash," "hypermangan," and "purple potion powder."
A white and orange cat looking out the window at a squirrel perched on a birdfeeder.
A white and orange cat nestled into a fuzzy blue blanket.
ACS mug with fluorine and the text “Happy 9th Anniversary.”
Photo of a student in lab holding a beaker and wearing safety goggles improperly on top of their head. Text reads "Hey, chemistry professor! Wondering how you can ensure the quality & rigor of your labs for online students?"
Photo of an orange and white cat next to a water bottle decorated with chemical structures.
T-shirt with Mickey mouse next to the word "Florida."
Photo of a "gingerbread man cat scratching playhouse" from Aldi, featuring a cat crawling out of the belly of a gingerbread man that is vaguely reminiscent the chestbursters in the film Alien.
Screenshot from the Wikipedia page for "Wife Guy" with a painting of noted chemists Marie-Anne and Antoine Lavoisier.
A white and orange cat batting at a molecular model in front of an organic chemistry textbook.
NMR sample glowing yellow under UV light.
Cat in front of a fireplace.
Stickers depicting a white and orange cat.
Picture of a neon green T-shirt with reading "i'm so juila" with a picture of the Julia olefination. (It's a really stupid joke.)
Graphical abstract showing a silica column with clear purple and orange bands along with the corresponding reaction.
Chemical structure of a so-called "nanocar."
The image of the NYPD guy on the news holding up a Terrorism textbook but the book has been replaced with Organic Chemistry for Babies.
Silica gel column with a blue/purple band on top and an orange band on the bottom.
"We asked ChatGPT whether gallium or bromine is larger in size; the full response is shown below. We think that your group can do a better job. Please critique ChatGPT’s answer and provide a chemical explanation of your own." Screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation: User: "Which is large, gallium or bromine?" ChatGPT: "Bromine is larger than gallium. Bromine is a halogen element with a large atomic radius compared to gallium, which is a metal. Atomic radius generally increases as you move down a group in the periodic table, so bromine, being lower down in the same group (group 17 or Group VIIA) has a larger atomic radius than gallium."
Cover at from "The Avalanche" by Sufjan Stevens.