I just want to be a quiet scholar

Chapter 485 Big Brother's Thoughts

Shen Qi found out that Laoyan's classmate, Cheng Gong, used phosphorus oxychloride and oxalyl chloride, probably in the synthesis of amides. Among them, phosphorus oxychloride is a highly restricted poison, but many organic reactions cannot do without it. .

"Old Cheng, how many compounds can your laboratory produce in a year?" Shen Qi asked.

"More than 200 were made last year," Cheng Gong said.

"Oh, amazing." Shen Qi had been observing after entering the laboratory, and after saying these two words, he left the laboratory with Lao Yan.

After a while, Cheng Gong came out and kept saying sorry for the poor reception.

"On behalf of the Institute of Numerology, I would like to invite the two brothers of the Institute of Chemistry to gather together. Let's go and find a place to have a meal. I will be the host." Shen Qi suggested.

Lao Yan skillfully drove to the high-end canteen in their center - Diaoyutai.

The leaders are not very busy recently, there are no major international receptions, and the state guesthouse is open to the public.

Shen Qi's car has been registered at the State Guest House and has a pass.

In the private room of the State Guest House, Cheng Gong was somewhat restrained: "Professor Shen, you are too polite to meet me for the first time!"

"Don't say these polite words between classmates, Lao Yan, you order." Shen Qi looked at Lao Yan.

Lao Yan skillfully ordered a few signature dishes, it can be seen that he is no stranger to this place, he has learned a lot from Shen Qi, and his speech and behavior are somewhat different from his classmate Cheng Gong.

In the laboratory and the car, Shen Qi didn't observe Cheng Gong's appearance very carefully.

Now Shen Qi looked carefully at Cheng Gong. The head of the outsourcing company's laboratory was about 1.8 meters tall, and he was quite handsome. No wonder he found a young and beautiful girlfriend.

It's just that there are some dark red spots on Cheng Gong's face, which affect his handsomeness.

Most people who have been in the laboratory for a long time have this kind of spot.

Lao Yan had freckles on his face before, but after following Shen Qi, the freckles disappeared. The reason is that the center pays well, and Boss Shen is a proud boss who often takes his employees to eat well.The second is that the workload of the central chemical laboratory is not large, and Lao Yan spends more time in a daze and smoking than doing experiments.

Cheng Gong said that their laboratory produces more than 200 compounds a year. Shen Qi just saw with his own eyes that more than a dozen experimenters are working overtime.

Shen Qi noticed a detail. Cheng Gong took off his down jacket, and he was wearing a peach neckline sweater inside. The top buttons of the shirt inside the sweater were metal, and the buttons were rusted.

The reason for the rust is not difficult to guess, because acidic substances such as acid chloride have been used for a long time, and the laboratory environment is highly acidic, corroding iron buttons and copper buttons.

The food was served, and the three chatted while eating.

I don't know if I don't talk, the three are the same age, and they are all 29 years old this year.

Shen Qi was honored as "big brother" by two brothers who graduated from the chemistry institute.

"You two brothers, the three of us are in the same year and entered Yanda University for undergraduate study in the same class. Today we can sit at the same table and drink. This is fate. Come on, I'll do it, you can do whatever you want." Shen Qi drank the wine in his glass, Quite a big brother style.

"Brother Shen, fate!" Cheng Gong let go after drinking, not as restrained as before.

"Brother Shen is really a good brother. Old Cheng, it's better to follow our brother than anyone else." Lao Yan knew that Lao Cheng had a hard time in an outsourcing company. Doesn't the central chemistry laboratory just lack skilled chemical experimenters? ?Lao Yan made a side note, hoping that Lao Cheng could make a statement at the wine table and hang out with Big Brother Shen from now on.

All three of them drank, and when no one was allowed to drive, Boss Shen would naturally arrange for a driver. This was not a big problem.But this old Cheng didn't seem to be enlightened, no matter how Lao Yan played the drums, Lao Cheng just didn't show his loyalty to Shen Qi.

"Old Cheng, more than a dozen people in your laboratory make more than 200 compounds a year, and synthesize one sample a day on average. Isn't that too efficient?" Shen Qi asked a question casually while drinking and chatting.

"Private companies are not like this. Efficiency is a nice term. To put it bluntly, it means squeezing employees." Lao Cheng blushed, and he introduced some specifics of their company and the current situation of the organic synthesis outsourcing industry.

The outsourcing of organic synthesis has provided many employment opportunities for students majoring in chemistry in China, making organic chemistry the major with the highest employment rate in chemistry. Many students majoring in chemistry, even if their major is not organic, are desperately trying to squeeze in the direction of organic.

But this is only the highest employment rate, not the best treatment.

Lao Cheng said that the business structure of their company is that overseas returnees are in charge of management, and returnees basically do not enter the laboratory.The local doctors open up the route, that is, design the synthetic route for specific execution, optimize the reaction steps, change five steps into three steps, and change three steps into one step. This is the job of a local doctor of chemistry.

Specific laboratory synthesis operations are completed by graduate students and undergraduate students.

Postgraduates and undergraduates came to Lao Cheng’s company, yes, they are indeed very easy to find employment, just after graduation, after a short-term training, they entered the laboratory to do synthesis.

Lao Cheng complained that with this kind of work mode, postgraduates and undergraduates doing specific operations would all become organic migrant workers.

It is also impossible to retain talents, and it is difficult to train a skilled migrant worker. When he masters the operational skills, he jumps to a company with better treatment.

Shen Qi asked: "Let me ask, is your strategic line designed by yourself, or how did you get it?"

"Doesn't the company have some foreigner consultants? More than [-]% of the strategic routes are given by foreigners. Including me, the head of the laboratory, who is actually a senior migrant worker. I follow the route to synthesize, year after year, day after day. Day." Old Cheng said.

"I am a postgraduate student from Yan University College of Chemistry. I know very well that the most time-consuming research in organic chemistry is the route design, but there is no way. The boss of a private company will not give me a lot of time to study the route. What he wants is high efficiency and the fastest speed. Synthesize samples and deliver them to customers.”

"In my laboratory, there are more than a dozen people, half of whom are newcomers. I taught them how to synthesize. Last year, I made more than 200 compounds. It is normal for several projects to start at the same time. One day off a week and overtime is the norm. I am not afraid of hardships or fears. Tired, but we do the hardest, most tiring and dangerous work, and the papers and patents belong to foreigners and returnees, which makes me very depressed." Lao Cheng said, obviously unhappy.

"Then it's still a knitting!" Lao Yan said unhappily.

"Actually, it's the same wherever you jump. The world is as black as crows." Lao Cheng shook his head helplessly, and then said enviously: "Old Yan, you are really good. I read the paper you published in the "Journal of the American Chemical Society". Arrived, benzazepines, our laboratory has done this kind of compound.”

Shen Qi asked again: "Old Cheng, if I outsource a project to your laboratory and only give you the route, similar to the paper you saw on Lao Yan's project on benzazepines, after you get the route , How soon can samples be produced?"

Lao Cheng: "It depends on the details of the specific outsourcing contract. The compound in Lao Yan's paper is relatively complicated, and we can finish it in about a week."

"Amazing." Shen Qi also had to admire the efficiency of private companies. In this industry environment, they must be efficient, otherwise they would not be able to survive.

Old Cheng seemed to have gotten the hang of it: "Brother, you don't mean to outsource the project to me, do you?"

Shen Qi smiled, noncommittal, and asked again: "Brother Cheng, are you familiar with the outsourcing industry?"

Lao Cheng nodded: "My postgraduate study is organic. I have graduated for five years and have worked in the same company for five years without changing jobs. I have basically figured out everything that needs to be figured out in this industry."

Shen Qi still smiled: "Very good, very good."

Lao Yan, who was silent for a while, kept observing.

Lao Yan understood. Shen Qi said in the central laboratory just now that we will only design routes and do cutting-edge research. This is what chemists should do.

Brother Shen seems to want to outsource the series of work behind the route design... Lao Yan had an epiphany, and Brother Shen began to look for external resources. The big brother is going to get down to business. He needs talents who are familiar with external resources and the outsourcing industry , rather than just recruiting a few senior experimenters.

(End of this chapter)