Michaela Pfau

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What are advantages to running a reaction under vacuum rather than under nitrogen? What type of glassware do you need to run reactions under vacuum?

I'm trying to make a PLGA copolymer via melt polymerization and a lot of the literature suggests performing the reaction under vacuum but the exact directions are unclear.

27 September 2016 5,948 3 View

How do I purify crude polyglycolic acid?

I need to synthesize PGA, but most of the literature says to remove residual monomer via refluxing in ethyl acetate or by performing a Soxhlet extraction in ethyl acetate. We don't have a Soxhlet...

20 July 2016 2,578 1 View