This year, Santa isn’t checking who’s naughty or nice. He’s checking who’s brave enough to use the reagents every chemist secretly dreams of, yet quietly fears. His bag is packed not with candy canes and gingerbread, but with the legends of the lab: diazomethane’s yellow menace, fluorine’s wild fury, hydrogen fluoride’s silent sting, phosgene’s deadly whisper, and nitrogen triiodide’s feather-trigger boom.
Every chemist knows them. Every chemist respects them. And almost every chemist hopes someone else handles them.
But this year, Santa brings something even better than courage: flow chemistry technologies that make even these “dirty reagents” behave.
Imagine generating diazomethane exactly when you need it, and never again storing a drop.
Imagine taming fluorine in controlled microchannels where reaction heat disappears faster than you can say “deflagration.”
Imagine using HF and phosgene in enclosed, continuous systems that keep the danger inside and the chemistry precise.
Imagine producing nitrogen triiodide only in microgram quantities, inside a reactor you never have to touch.
Santa’s message is clear:
Chemistry shouldn’t be scary — it should be powerful.
With modern flow reactors, in-line quenching, controlled dosing, and closed-loop safety systems, even the most feared reagents become reliable tools instead of Christmas nightmares.
So this year, unwrap a new kind of freedom. Say goodbye to the fear, and hello to the chemistry you always wanted to do.
Santa’s Dirty Wishlist is here. And it’s safer, faster, and more fun than ever.