What do you do while waiting an experiment to finish ?

What do you do while waiting for an experiment to finish?

       I have asked many of my friends who do wet experiments with the above question. Most of them answered me that they usually either read scientific papers, write a thesis, or plan the next chemical reaction. I can say that none of the chemists want the bad results. A few questions I asked them were what if your advisor sets a deadline and you cannot get good results on time, and the experimental results do not go well, what will eventually you do? The time you spent with those failures became nothing. It might be time to rethink about this problem.

       Computational Chemistry can help you guys to avoid this kind of problem. It can predict (accurately guess) what will you get before doing an actual experiment. From tons of reagents and catalysts, it will screen you and find promising chemicals you should use for chemical reactions. So if you know someone who does research or works in computational chemistry, find him/her now!

       Computational chemists use mathematical algorithms, statistics, and large databases to integrate chemical theory and molecular simulation with experimental observations. Some computational chemists create models and simulations of chemical and physical processes, and others use statistics and data analysis techniques to extract useful information from large bodies of data, nowadays known as "Data Scientists". 

       It is impossible to see what real atoms in molecules look like, some computational chemists have developed software that can make the visualization possible for both experimental and computational chemists to present complex analyses in a readily understandable form, which they can use to design experiments and new materials and validate the results. 

Required skill for computational chemistry

References

1. http://www.ccl.net/cca/documents/dyoung/topics-orig/compchem.html

2. https://www.acs.org

Rangsiman Ketkaew