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How Did You Get Interested in Chemistry?
I know that you have a PhD in chemistry and that you did this work with sulfur and even Selenium compounds rightYeah I've done some Selenium chemistry I technically haven't defended my PhD yet that's coming up in the next few months here. The idea was they wanted to make perfluoro alkoxides so in this case we wanted to bend in and at least one CF2-0 minus as an anionic initiator for the polymerization of this monomer called a hexafluoro propylene oxide HFPO. This whole idea is if you could make an initiator with a benzene ring on one side open up this monomer then do chemistry on the other side