What kinds of reactions do you do most?

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Variety may be the spice of life, but there’s space for the boring but effective

I’ve been doing plenty of bench chemistry lately, but I sometimes wonder what my earlier self would have thought about it. Not the fact of still doing chemistry at the bench this late in my career – I would have applauded that! But I’m wondering more about the kinds of reactions that I do.