How I became a PhD in Chemistry

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  • @niklas_science
    @niklas_science Рік тому +420

    Congrats on actually doing it Joey! Now you are officially Dr Chemist!

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Рік тому +53

      Ty Niklas :)

    • @sam2809
      @sam2809 Рік тому +16

      @@That_Chemist you did it before tom too

  • @ImKibitz
    @ImKibitz Рік тому +149

    Congratulations on your PhD Dr Chemist!

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Рік тому +16

      thank you for your help Mr Angry Factory Man :P

  • @codycrank3465
    @codycrank3465 Рік тому +583

    A completed thesis from a youtuber chemist, What kind of black magic is this ?

    • @alecity4877
      @alecity4877 Рік тому +126

      not wasting time with cubane

    • @mightytitan1719
      @mightytitan1719 Рік тому +10

      This is alchemy

    • @kaboom4679
      @kaboom4679 Рік тому +25

      More like yellow magic ...

    • @vdate
      @vdate Рік тому +11

      ​@@kaboom4679I admit it, I laughed.

    •  Рік тому +19

      That's because the thesis is on chemistry instead of physics

  • @ricardsjaunzems2364
    @ricardsjaunzems2364 Рік тому +53

    Thank you very mucy for making this video! I think having an example of what a professional thesis presentation online could help students with defending their thesis.

  • @hailhydrazine4938
    @hailhydrazine4938 Рік тому +29

    Congratulations for the PhD , one of my mates is playing around with fluorination at the moment, I will let him know about this work

  • @mitchellp7305
    @mitchellp7305 Рік тому +36

    Congratulations once again on your PhD Mr Doctor That Chemist.

  • @andreyv116
    @andreyv116 Рік тому +85

    So you got a doctorate in giving a molecule an F

  • @rebeccabujnoch1079
    @rebeccabujnoch1079 Рік тому +4

    Awesome job! I didn’t understand most of it but proud of you for showing up and doing the work!

  • @Eivesohn
    @Eivesohn Рік тому +17

    6:05 I felt this so much lmao, the more concise and straight to the point the better

    • @Playfulpat
      @Playfulpat Рік тому

      lol same, when I practice with my self I do the same

  • @sacredyveltal4688
    @sacredyveltal4688 Рік тому +23

    Once again congratulations on your successful thesis defense 🎉 I'm sure this material will be very useful for your fellow chemists to appreciate and learn from 😊

  • @RolandOuellette
    @RolandOuellette Рік тому +2

    Congratulations! Also, thanks to Organic 1 and Organic 2 (both partly with Sharpless in 1987) and your clear explanation, I mostly understood this.

  • @horatiumoldovan4836
    @horatiumoldovan4836 Рік тому +9

    Congratulations! I had the misfortune of an older colleague (she was Assistant Prof.) trying to shut me up on some natural compound chemistry I had my graduation about saying "at least I published on this topic as opposed to you" ...printer noise... paper got wet with the sweat of my palms as I read my second year undergrad prep method published by the people I had to trust as supervisors and coworkers without even acknowledgement of my (back then) good self... while I was abroad. I understand paperwork between universities and alliances between Professors that last saw each other while college students were made for me to have this research topic that was their own... but then again, I nailed the prep approach by extrapolating some other method I found on a similar substrate. Just to make it clear I was living in whatever is inappropriate to call a lab at least compared to any home lab I pretty much had rather an institute (2800+ different chemicals I even heroically enforced the local DEA to return to me, but evil parents took care of quite a few). The point is that the incomparably superior plant material was brought to me by pure chance... this made a second grade biology/biochem student bringing a giant jar full of crystalline betulin, which was reported in literature but never extracted as other than amorphous. I felt like teaching the prestigious industrial chemistry Faculty how to properly use a soxhlet (top quality extractive hand picked by biologist who does a good distinction between the tissues and knowing what to choose) the crystals were obtained by the partial recovery of the solvent just by knowing when to stop (gut feeling, not that much science), the prep oxidation was found tested and implemented in my own lab with my own materials what I showed them was the most successful of my findings that just happened to beat their previous attempts regarding time, cost, labour and yield. My rest of the thesis had some amino triazoles attached to the newly formed oxo group that were not really easy to both prepare and analyse but everyone knew my dedication as at least something needed to be at a light reflux in order for me to sleep. The lady that printed the traumatic paper had no idea of her involvement since she did the HPLC and just that. I was losing the fight with my apparently limitless ego things never got good enough for me to get to defend or even write my thesis... there is no publication with my name on it up to date. Plenty of so far safe clandestine labs established by people I met and inspired, I sometimes have the magic of sending someone home with the gift of understanding most of what is needed to operate a chemical lab just by reading because I made them curious. I spoke the truth when told them I was aquainted with the basics of organic chemistry in two weeks. I have them references, and people know I'm not backing down on using them on whomever I deem worthy (mistakes included)

  • @sophianilsson1038
    @sophianilsson1038 Рік тому +5

    I have been watching your channel for a while and just wanted to say that it was got me though me first year chemistry course. Congrats Dr.ThatChemist !

  • @derrickhageman1969
    @derrickhageman1969 Рік тому +21

    Ahh good old fluorine shuch a viscous yet a very useful element in lots of ways,expected or not
    Hats off to you for this amazing thesis and congrats on getting that Ph.D

  • @thecoolguy3498
    @thecoolguy3498 5 місяців тому

    Dude I literally LOVE all of your videos. Plz keep em comin!

  • @abu-karz
    @abu-karz Рік тому +1

    Thank you for sharing this 😊! This is truly a gem! I love it. As a chem nerd I really wanted these sorts of learning material

  • @tegarachsendo9730
    @tegarachsendo9730 Рік тому +1

    Congratulations for your Ph.D. Josh🎉 I've always wanted to learn more about fluorine organic chemistry, and now you give me a new motivation to apply for doctorate

  • @someengineermain6803
    @someengineermain6803 Рік тому +2

    You have officially earned the title of dr chemist

  • @sashboo1370
    @sashboo1370 Рік тому +2

    Amazing Job, i'm glad the defence went well. I'm particularly happy to see a new method for making difluoromethyl ethers as in the past I searched for those and only found a sketchy electrochemical way and one using difluorocarbene, amazing job!

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Рік тому +2

      Difluorocarbenes are like 95% of the literature

  • @cornholeius9350
    @cornholeius9350 Рік тому

    Dr. Chemist has a nice ring, congrats! I am not a chemistry guy by any means but your content makes it interesting. Well deserved.

  • @DrHenry1987
    @DrHenry1987 Рік тому +27

    Congrats on the PhD. I'll give you the same advice I give others and my Father gave me when I got the PhD. And I quote, "Just because you have a PhD doesn't mean you know a damn thing".

    • @exaviestivalet3393
      @exaviestivalet3393 Рік тому +2

      Those sound like the words of a person who is upset at the accomplishments of those who came after them. I’d never take that advice .

    • @DrHenry1987
      @DrHenry1987 11 місяців тому

      My Dad was a PhD in hard living, totally proud of me. Remember the advice, it will slap you in the face one day when you least expect it. I also tell new PhDs, there is a post-PhD let down you will experience. @@exaviestivalet3393

    • @zachingram04
      @zachingram04 11 місяців тому +1

      @@exaviestivalet3393 It's a reminder to stay humble. Chances are, you have a lot of knowledge in a very narrow part of the scientific spectrum.

  • @margodphd
    @margodphd Рік тому +4

    Excellent, useful thesis. Well done Man,we always believed in you and still you managed to exceed expectations. Well done, well deserved and can't wait to read the entire thesis. And hey, I suppose Your girlfriend/ wife had a hand in choosing the suit but you still deserve a commendation - finally,a well chosen colour, interesting, yet classy combination. If I see one more black funeral suit with a grandparent's violently red (or worse, yellow) tie, during day, on adult dude that can afford different, I'll cry.

  • @feblehober123
    @feblehober123 Рік тому +5

    6:15
    What's your lab's ETA on fluorinated MDMA hitting the streets?
    Jokes aside, great presentation, great job, and congratulations!

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Рік тому +2

      TRIUMF decided to not pursue a project looking at 18F phenethylamines due to their general trend of binding to lots of receptors

    • @feblehober123
      @feblehober123 Рік тому +2

      @@That_Chemist Interesting. One common PET tracer, 11C-deprenyl-D2, has the drawback of being metabolized into 11C-methamphetamine, which has horrible off-target binding. MDMA-F2 could be interesting even if useless in PET.

  • @antonioferreira8272
    @antonioferreira8272 Рік тому +5

    Good luck on your thesis defense!

    • @lvn5609
      @lvn5609 Рік тому

      As far as i know he has defended already

  • @CED99
    @CED99 Рік тому +3

    Bless you

  • @simplecomplexity7352
    @simplecomplexity7352 Рік тому

    Congratulation! Well done! I actually listened to Prof. Britton's talk two months ago about total synthesis.Very interesting chemistry.

  • @christineg8151
    @christineg8151 Рік тому

    Congratulations! I'm working on my Master's thesis right now, and the idea of having to present my research is very intimidating. Excellent work!

  • @Laundry_Hamper
    @Laundry_Hamper Рік тому +6

    Which of these fluorine compounds will turn my frogs the most gay?

  • @marlysalt
    @marlysalt Рік тому

    Are you posting this for feedback and to check it for errors? Mad respect, Doctor.

  • @NoblePineapples
    @NoblePineapples Рік тому

    That Dr. Chemist
    This is so awesome, so damn proud of you!

  • @masterlotiondmt
    @masterlotiondmt Рік тому +1

    Congratulations dude the PET applications are humongous

  • @Stonie23
    @Stonie23 Рік тому

    Very nice presentation, I feel remembered to my days at university. Congratulations to you PhD

  • @LouxNUH
    @LouxNUH Рік тому

    *sneeze*
    "I left that in"
    I don't know why, but I found great amusement in that bit.

  • @razielhauhnar7141
    @razielhauhnar7141 Рік тому

    Congratulations once again. Hope to learn a lot from you.

  • @artej11
    @artej11 Рік тому

    Congratulations Man!
    Please remember that current happiness might be temporary, but the fluorinated compounds are forever.

  • @LiamLovesMetal
    @LiamLovesMetal Рік тому +1

    Awesome thesis! Fluorine is easily the most interesting halogen and chemical element to me. If I could go back 15 years ago with the knowledge and fascination I have with chemistry in my 30s I would have absolutely pursued it as my career rather than becoming a licensed electrician

  • @boukesietinga5161
    @boukesietinga5161 Рік тому

    Congrats on your PhD! Really nice and well made powerpoint. Explanations were easy to follow for a difficult subject. Thank you for that!

  • @zeaxanthin
    @zeaxanthin Рік тому

    Congratulations! Very interesting presentation and work. Good Job, hope to see more details about your research.

  • @andrews.4780
    @andrews.4780 Рік тому

    So happy for your PhD congratulations! This was a very interesting thesis regarding fluorination, I can’t wait to see more material from you Dr. Chem!

  • @eclipsa1203
    @eclipsa1203 Рік тому

    holy shit congration DR CHEMIST!

  • @deshazo_henry
    @deshazo_henry Рік тому +1

    Now I always thought that Sanford & Co meant Sanford and collaborators not Sanford and co-workers.

  • @nicolascuyato3580
    @nicolascuyato3580 Рік тому

    Congratulations on that PhD dude!!! :D you inspire me to keep on with my chemistry undergraduate :') I'm looking forward to someday become a doctor too

  • @axehead45
    @axehead45 Рік тому

    WOOHOO CONGRATS DR!!

  • @davidwagner6116
    @davidwagner6116 Рік тому

    Interesting work, great presentation, congratulations! You pitched that at the right level of detail for me, anyway.

  • @hi-im-morgan
    @hi-im-morgan Рік тому

    Congratulations, Dr. Newton!!!

  • @mrmusicalmuffin9806
    @mrmusicalmuffin9806 Рік тому

    Love to see it, can’t wait to see some more from the PhD

  • @AnthemUnanthemed
    @AnthemUnanthemed Рік тому

    CONGRATULATIONS DR. CHEMIST!!!

  • @abu-karz
    @abu-karz Рік тому

    Wow congrats Dr Joey

  • @sudhanshgola1597
    @sudhanshgola1597 Рік тому

    Now you have one up on "explosions and fire"

  • @alberthofmann420
    @alberthofmann420 Рік тому +4

    3:04 Bless you :)

  • @EmiliRimar
    @EmiliRimar Рік тому

    God I hope my research goes as well as yours (or at least yours seemed to have gone well!)
    Congratulations Dr. That Chemist!! Amazing stuff!!🎉

  • @thedoctor0272
    @thedoctor0272 Рік тому

    2 Funny stories I got to share.
    I am a mine Eng (essentially the gollum of the engineering programs) and once I drank sulfur water, it didn’t taste too good.
    Second I accidentally licked HCl. I was trying to see if the rock was salt.

  • @peterkujawski1370
    @peterkujawski1370 Рік тому

    Big congrats the concept of writing a thesis is crazy to me props 🎉🎉🎉

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Рік тому

      its just a story tbh - a 5 paper sandwich

  • @keaganlove1478
    @keaganlove1478 Рік тому

    Great PhD! Very interesting work

  • @griffing2523
    @griffing2523 Рік тому +1

    What's the name of the leishmaniasis drug on your slide titled "Noteworthy Difluorobenzodioxoles"? Excellent work my guy congratulations!!!!!!!!

  • @ryangribs
    @ryangribs Рік тому

    Just completed chem 2 in undergrad this semester and still have no idea anything that you're talking about. Will come back in 1.5 years after biochem and see if i get it then👍

  • @quadraticformulaic6636
    @quadraticformulaic6636 Рік тому

    Congratulations! 🎉

  • @neongrey333
    @neongrey333 Рік тому

    congratulations, doctor!!!

  • @gabesgames6099
    @gabesgames6099 Рік тому

    Congrats on the phd!

  • @javier6489
    @javier6489 Рік тому

    Excellent content 👍🏻

  • @hasanhaitham276
    @hasanhaitham276 Рік тому

    Congratulations Doctor🎉

  • @aqdrobert
    @aqdrobert Рік тому

    Dropout: I used to think i could write a thesis in chemistry. Now I walk into a convenience store, and threaten, "Thesis a stick up!"

  • @Flesh_Wizard
    @Flesh_Wizard Рік тому

    Thank you Dr Chemist. I was wondering how to fluorine

  • @owentan6322
    @owentan6322 Рік тому

    Congratss!!!

  • @drNecronus
    @drNecronus Рік тому

    Wow such a promising field to study, I wonder what effects thoes fluors induces in the galienic molecules. Realy proud of you Dr That, you are my role model :^)
    Curently not finding any master that is interresting, teaching some highscoolers to save for next year, I wonder if i will be able to get back at it and be a scolar like you one day.

  • @NIL0S
    @NIL0S Рік тому

    I also just did my Viva. Getting diploma on 22. Woot!

  • @vancouveropenbsd985
    @vancouveropenbsd985 11 місяців тому

    You worked with elemental fluorine?!? You're a brave man. That being said, my chemistry teacher explained to me that fluorine just wants to get together with someone really bad. When it does, it's perfectly happy.

  • @AlwayzPr0
    @AlwayzPr0 Рік тому

    Yay!! Now you and explosions and fire are officially smart 🎉

  • @UmairRamay
    @UmairRamay Рік тому

    Congratulations. Excellent work. I wonder if I can get ppt version of this?

  • @0alalune0
    @0alalune0 Рік тому

    Congratulations!!!!

  • @MephistoMaxwell
    @MephistoMaxwell Рік тому

    He is now officially That Doctor.

  • @davidtong5717
    @davidtong5717 Рік тому

    Awesome work man and congrats on the PhD!
    Question: Have you tried the difluoromethyl procedure on aryl alcohols? Thanks!

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Рік тому +1

      the reagent is super messy with phenols - not clean EAS reactions either, like red tars and lots of spots by TLC (I tried lots of things)

  • @taborsmrcna
    @taborsmrcna Рік тому

    Congratulations to Dr. ThatChemist

  • @joanickbourret3957
    @joanickbourret3957 Рік тому

    Congrats on making it! Will you be sharing your thesis in the near future? I'd be curious to read some of it.

  • @tylerswanson6358
    @tylerswanson6358 Рік тому +1

    Great talk, I quite enjoyed it (and congratulations by the way)! I just wanted to ask briefly how common the difluoromethyl species (and particularly the ether variety) are in the medicinal chemistry literature? I can't say I see them terribly frequently, especially when compared to its trifluoromethyl sibling. Do they tend to have similar properties and/or activities (aside from generally being less stable) to that of trifluoromethyl species? Thank you, and congrats again!

  • @taermina8907
    @taermina8907 Рік тому

    I'm not a chemist but I find your channel really interesting. Congratulations on your doctorate, and allow me to say the little thionobenzodioxole diagram guys are really cute 🥺

  • @superhacker35
    @superhacker35 11 місяців тому

    YES congrats!

  • @andromeda7063
    @andromeda7063 Рік тому

    When are we getting the fluoriated compounds tierlist

  • @romanbuksak1064
    @romanbuksak1064 Рік тому +4

    Sincere congrats on your thesis! Is there a way to contact you directly? I have some problems regarding the -CF2H group and maybe you would know the answers

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Рік тому +2

      Send me a dm - I’d be happy to help

  • @AnnaBerlin4008
    @AnnaBerlin4008 Рік тому

    ♥️♥️♥️♥️Very interesting! Thank you so much✨🍀

  • @kaboom4679
    @kaboom4679 Рік тому

    Congrats !

  • @jacksonmwangi6546
    @jacksonmwangi6546 4 місяці тому

    Congratulations

  • @jacksonmwangi6546
    @jacksonmwangi6546 4 місяці тому

    Great work. Do you have a link to the article? Would love to study it in broader detail.

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  4 місяці тому

      I’ll link to my Google scholar profile so that you can check out any of my published work scholar.google.ca/citations?user=mSBZhIYAAAAJ&hl=en

  • @Tue4277
    @Tue4277 Рік тому

    Yay you are doctor ThatChemist now

  • @McLovinMods
    @McLovinMods Рік тому +1

    This is gonna make explosions&fire mad lol

  • @gabitooox1
    @gabitooox1 Рік тому +1

    How did you make the structures? ChemDraw? It looks really clean, congratulations on your PhD!

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Рік тому +1

      Yeah chemdraw! We have the template available in the TC discord resources channel

  • @dariusszablowski5474
    @dariusszablowski5474 9 місяців тому

    Congratulations. 🥳 Very cool chemistry. ☺ What other difluoro-compounds do you think will be of great interest in pharmaceutical research, looking forward into the future?

  • @levtrot3041
    @levtrot3041 Рік тому

    I actually find the benzyne CS2 step to be highly elegant

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  Рік тому

      The only sucky thing is that the specific anthranilic acid completely messes up how well that step works - like I made a BDT with two fluorines on the ring, and the yield of that salt was 0.5% 💀

  • @zhiz3074
    @zhiz3074 Рік тому

    Behold, that Dr. Chemist

  • @christopherleubner6633
    @christopherleubner6633 4 місяці тому

    Congratulations on your Ph.D on selective fluorination of organics. That is a very challenging task. Im wondering if you tried microwave assist with your flourination?

    • @That_Chemist
      @That_Chemist  4 місяці тому

      I didn’t - this would be worth examining though, especially as 18F-radiolabeling is concerned

  • @some_guy___
    @some_guy___ Рік тому

    RIP AgF purification section

  • @7636kei
    @7636kei Рік тому

    Any plans to 'rebrand' (?) into _That PhD (Chemist)_ now?

  • @jimsvideos7201
    @jimsvideos7201 Рік тому

    This sounds like a lot spicy reagents going downrange.

  • @uncleal
    @uncleal Рік тому

    Remember! *NEVER* mention the secret handshake! Future plans?

  • @andrewpritchard2863
    @andrewpritchard2863 Рік тому

    Dude this is great research, thanks for posting. Where did you do grad school?

  • @timothytosser288
    @timothytosser288 Рік тому +1

    Flourine is scary

  • @Drjtherrien
    @Drjtherrien Рік тому

    Do you give two presentations, one for the public and one for the PhD committee? I'm assuming this is too general of a talk for the committee. We only have the students do one presentation including all the technical details but it is open to the public.

  • @niknovikov1919
    @niknovikov1919 Рік тому

    did you have tier lists in your thesis presentation? )

  • @TheDecree93
    @TheDecree93 2 місяці тому

    But what about the wookies under nucleophilic attack?!

  • @JonBrase
    @JonBrase Рік тому

    Me: Who needs to read a PhD thesis on fluorination? All I need to know about fluorination I learned from /Ignition/!
    Next chempolation: Discusses the discovery of my crispy and unselectively fluorinated remains in a vat of ClF3.