color

As promised in an earlier post. Steps are being taken to document the pretty colors. What we have here is a basic iridium starting material. Iridium will be the metal atom of choice for most of the non-blue or green colors, which will be filled in with cobalt probably.


Coincidentally, my mother-in-law has towels that are this exact same color. Is this orange or yellow? Perhaps it shouldn't count for either. If I were going to be particularly rigorous about this I would take a UV-Vis spectrum, but lets not get hasty.

In other research news, I have a new compound which has been characterized by NMR. The next step is to try to get some crystals. Two initial attempts, one by reacting in THF and slowly evaporating the solution, the other by reacting in a concentrated heptane solution and cooling in the box freezer. Hopefully good news soon to follow.