Lab struggles Memes

The breakfast of organic chemists! Nothing quite like staring at an NMR spectrum only to find it's infested with methyl groups (CH 3 ) that completely overwhelm your data. Those pesky little triplets at ~1 ppm are the bane of every researcher's existence. You spend hours preparing your sample, carefully tuning the machine, and what do you get? A forest of methyl peaks that make finding your actual compound like searching for a specific Cheerio in this cereal bowl. The worst part? Your advisor will still expect you to interpret that mess by tomorrow morning. Naturally and artificially frustrating indeed!