analytical chemistry > organic chemistry > inorganic chemistry > physical chemistry
>>8088358
t. test tube washer
>>8088373
>2016
>not having an ultrasonic washer
Hahahaha no. Analytical chemistry barely produces any good research. Oh wow we detected incredibly small amounts of heavy metals in fish, it's so small it's nothing to worry about, but we did it. Literally an Anal. Chem paper. Most Anal. Chem research is just done to keep the field alive and train grads, it's just like why people still analyze shakespeare's work even though they've done so for like 200 years.
You'll never make cool molecules like pic related.
>>8088358
>analytical chemistry ⋘ organic chemistry ⋘ inorganic chemistry ⋘ physical chemistry
>>8088376
analytical chemistry > inorganic chemistry > physical chemistry > organic chemistry
>>8088358
>organic chem.
but where are your pretty colors, huh OP?
>>8088373
Biochemistry > organic chemistry > your mom > any other chemistry.
My opinion > your opinion.
>>8088358
So basically least to most money and easiest to hardest?
>>8088358
Chemistry < Real Science
>>8088413
go play with your shitty lasers somewhere else faggot
>>8088380
this is the truth, right here
>>8088376
>kcal/mol
Biochemfag here.
I think all areas of chemistry are great :3
We have to stand together <3
>>8088358
all you faggots are wrong
(organometallic chemistry > pure inorganic = materials chemistry >= physical chemistry = synth. method. and nat. prod. synth. > basic organic chemistry) analytical chemistry
analytical chemistry really can't be compared to the other branches of chemistry because it is fundamentally different
>>8088463
>completely arbitrary SI units are better than ones based on practical measurements
>>8088468
Who you think you are? Trying to talk sense to these people?
>>8088470
Sorry, no one else is this autistic.
>>8088471
>"completely arbitrary SI units"
>"practical measurements"
Amurritard detected.
>>8088475
You mean no one else ITT has had chemistry beyond ochem 2
>>8088478
why don't you go read some chem journals, kcal/mol is the international standard
>>8088471
Awww, someone is still trying to go against SI.
Go fuck measurements some place else.
does the arrows pointing towards the name mean its not as good as the one to its right?
so analytical chemistry > physical chemistry means physical chemistyrs better?
>>8088478
>The cubit is an ancient unit based on the forearm length from the middle finger tip to the elbow bottom.
>The meter is the length of the path traveled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second.
Yuropoor detected.
ITT: Anal Chemists butthurt because their field is the lab-tech-tier subfield of chemists
> muh titrations
> muh machines (borrowed from the biomed department)
> muh spectrophotomers
who gives a shit since
>physics > chemistry
>>8088557
>who gives a shit
People who actually want a job in their field.
< JESUS
- REDNECK SCI GUY
Analytical chemistry as a field is lame as fuck. I love using mass spectrometry and I love getting fantastic separations, but these are things that many fields (within and outside of chemistry) use and master. Bioorganic/inorganic chemists do that stuff too. So do materials chemists, and physical chemists.
Being an "analytical chemist" therefore means more than just what I mentioned; it means fucking around with method development and error and other autistic shit. I'd like to point out that analytical chemists know very little actual chemistry, in the sense that they rarely think on a molecular level.
I pity my anal chem friend doing his PhD in it, he spends all his time repairing and optimising machines, and doesn't end up doing much interesting work.
I'm in favour of abolishing it as an undergraduate endeavour, because anything you learn from it at that level is also learned from other disciplines.
It also has the dumbest job prospects, nobody wants to willingly work in QC
>>8088376
this
this is the indisputable truth
Pchem > Inorganic > organic >>>>>analytical
we all knew this was a bait post as soon as "analytical" was somehow best. It's literally the most boring fucking aspect of chem.
>>8088594
This as well
>getting a PhD in shit lab work
L-O-fucking-L. Theres a reason there are so many jobs available for analytical chemists; nobody wants to do it. analytical is literally about doing all the work everyone else has to do anyway, only at a higher level.
>>8088557
what do physicists do anyway?
>>8088358
>phys chem being anywhere but top of the chemistry fields
Opinion disregarded
<<<<<<<<<<astrochemistry
>>8088594
I wanna do Analytical Chem haha, have I lost it? I do spend a lot of the time in labs messing around with my machines and changing parts though. Great times
>>8088376
Are you serious? Biomedical research uses analytical chemists literally every publication. Who do you think does the triple rat micro dialysis and MS++ assays on the compounds I make? I sure as shit don't.
Tiering chemistry is dumb but there is one that all will agree with: computational chemistry produces shit research and they just eat pizza and watch Netflix while week-long jobs are running on the PC.
>>8089226
Literally useless mathematicians, go study physics and stop wasting lab space.
>>8088358
analytical chemistry > inorganic chemistry > organic chemistry > physical chemistry
Fixed
>>8091561
yeah, you have.
What are some good sources for organic chemistry?
>>8091592
>they just eat pizza and watch netflix
All the more reason to get into it
>>8088517
>> muh machines (borrowed from the biomed department)
THEY'RE INSTRUMENTS
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>8088517
Titration is very meditative.
In terms of being the most traditional (I.e. closer to the spirit of alchemy), organic chemistry (particularly synthesis) is the best, followed by inorganic chemistry, biochemistry, physical chemistry, and lastly analytical chemistry.
Anal chem is honestly more statistics than chemistry.
>>8089107
Sit around all day being inferior mathematicians
>>8088358
For undergrad employability, sure. Don't disagree with any part of this list.
But, really depends on how you rank them/
>>8093567
I'll take it any day over Phys Chem, thermo dynamics kill me now
>>8093623
not if you use these
>>8088358
theoretical chemistry > physical chemistry >inorganic chemistry >> organic chemistry >>>>> analytical chemistry
>>8094021
420 blaze it
>this stupid thread again
>>8088376
Naw, better analytic chemistry techniques can make all other aspects of chemistry wayyyy better.
Take catalysis. If you can make a GC that can detect stupidly small amounts of material (picograms), suddenly you can run thousands of reactions from one milligram of material. That makes things *much* easier on researchers and improves the capacity of high-throughput screening.
