This happened at the beginning of the summer, and I imagine it happens to every chemist at some point in their career: the unfortuitous drop! For me I was rotovaping my final purified product when the keck clamp failed. Or rather, I was using the metal clamp on the rotovap which apparently didn't fit the lip of the bump trap. The next thing I know an oil of product is swimming in the water bath along with god knows what else.
One of my other lab mates handed me the largest separator funnel we had, and I started collecting the water out of the bath into Erlenmeyers. After a hefty amount of ethyl acetate I was able to retrieve delicious organic product. Here are some pictures of the ordeal:
This isn't really a kludge, but it does remind me of
There, I Fixed It.
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