My student forgot to add a stir bar to a biphasic reaction in a sealed container. I said let's go ahead and try after reading that paper. Lo and behold, we got almost no conversion. The reaction worked fine when resubjected with a stir bar. At least for biphasic reactions, it's still crucial to stir

😂 this will be a great example to add 😂

We Will do that after final version is Published. Working on that, paper is submitted now 🍀

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🙏 thank you for the kind words 🙏

e.g. integrating the UHPLC-MS was a pain as the software from Agilent is proprietary and thus reading out the data is simply made impossible - barring potential closed loop operation. we found a solution but it took a lot of time...