Shen Qi found that Cheng Gong, a classmate of Lao Yan, used phosphorus oxychloride and oxaloyl chloride, which should be doing amide synthesis, among which phosphorus oxychloride is a restricted-level highly toxic drug, but many organic reactions are inseparable from it.

"Lao Cheng, how many compounds can you make in this laboratory in a year?" asked Shen Qi.

"Last year I did more than 200. Cheng Gong said.

"Wow, awesome. Shen Qi has been observing since entering the laboratory, so he said these two words, and then left the laboratory with Lao Yan.

After a while, Cheng Gong came out and said sorry for the poor hospitality.

"On behalf of the Academy, I would like to invite the two brothers of the Academy to get together, let's go, find a place to eat, and I will be the east. Shen Qi proposed.

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

Recently, the leaders have not been very busy, there has been no major international reception, and the state guesthouse is open to the public.

Shen Qi's car was filed at the State Guesthouse and had a pass.

In the box of the State Guesthouse, Cheng Gong was a little restrained: "Professor Shen, you are too polite when we meet 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, and it could be seen that he was no stranger to this place, he had grown a lot of knowledge with Shen Qi, and his speech and demeanor were somewhat different from his classmate Cheng Gong.

In the laboratory and in the car, Shen Qi didn't look too closely at Cheng Gong's appearance.

Now Shen Qi is seriously looking at Cheng Gong, the laboratory leader of the outsourcing company is about 1.8 meters tall, and he is quite handsome, no wonder he can find a young and beautiful girlfriend.

It's just that Cheng Gong's face has some dark red spots, which affects his handsomeness.

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

Lao Yan's face also had spots before, and after following Shen Qi, the spots of Lao Yan disappeared, and the reasons for this were that the center was well treated, and Boss Shen was arrogant and often took employees to eat well. Second, the workload of the central chemistry laboratory is not large, and the time spent in a daze and smoking is more than the time for experiments.

Cheng Gong said that their laboratory makes more than 200 compounds a year, and 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 wore a woolen sweater with a peach neckline, and the top buttons of the shirt inside the cardigan were metal, and the buttons were rusty.

It is not difficult to guess the cause of rust, because of the long-term use of acidic substances such as acid chloride, the laboratory environment is highly acidic, and the iron and copper buttons are corroded.

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

I don't know, the three of them are the same year, and they are all 29 years old this year.

Shen Qi was called the eldest brother by the two brothers who graduated from the academy.

"Two brothers, we are both in the same year, and we entered Yan University in the same class to study as undergraduates, and today we can sit at the same table and drink, this is fate. Come, I'll do it, you feel free. Shen Qi drank all the wine in the cup, quite a big brother's style.

"Brother Shen, fate!" Cheng Gong let go after drinking, not as restrained as he was just now.

"Brother Shen is really a good big brother, Lao Cheng, it's better to follow our big brother than to follow anyone. "Lao Yan knows that Lao Cheng has been working hard in the outsourcing company, isn't this the central chemistry laboratory just short of skilled chemical experimenters?

The three of them all drank, and when no one could drive, Boss Shen would naturally arrange a driver, which was not a big problem. But this Lao Cheng doesn't seem to be open-minded, no matter how Lao Yan plays the side drum, Lao Cheng just doesn't show loyalty to Shen Qi.

"Lao Cheng, there are more than a dozen people in your laboratory, making more than 200 compounds a year, and synthesizing a sample in more than a day on average, this is too efficient, right?" Shen Qi drank and chatted, and asked a question inadvertently.

"Private companies are not like this, efficiency is a better way to say, to put it bluntly, it is to squeeze employees. Lao Cheng's face was flushed, and he introduced some specific situations of their company, as well as the current situation of the organic synthesis outsourcing industry.

Organic synthesis outsourcing provides a lot of employment opportunities for Chinese chemistry students, making organic chemistry the major with the highest employment rate in chemistry.

However, this is only the highest employment rate, which does not mean that the salary is the best.

Lao Cheng said that the business structure of their company is that returnees are managed by doctors, and returnees basically do not enter the laboratory. The local doctor opens up the line, that is, designs the synthesis route for specific implementation, optimizes the reaction steps, and changes five steps into three steps, and three steps into one step, which is the work of local chemistry doctors.

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

Graduate and undergraduate students come to Lao Cheng's company, yes, it is indeed very employable, just graduated, as soon as they join the company after a short period of training, they enter the laboratory to do synthesis.

Lao Cheng complained that with this kind of work model, graduate students and undergraduates who do specific operations have become organic migrant workers.

It is not easy to retain talents, and it is not easy to train a skilled migrant worker, and after mastering the operation skills, they jump to a company with better treatment.

Shen Qi asked, "Let me ask, did you design your strategic route yourself, or how did you come about?"

"Doesn't the company have some foreign consultants, and more than ninety percent of the strategic route is given by foreigners. Including me, the person in charge of the laboratory, is actually a senior migrant worker, who does synthesis according to the route, year after year, day after day. Lao Cheng said.

"I am a graduate student of Yanda Chemical Institute, and I know very well that the most important thing to study in organic chemistry is 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, he wants to be efficient, synthesize samples as quickly as possible, and deliver them to customers. ”

"In my lab, there are more than a dozen people, half of whom are newcomers, and I teach them to do synthesis by hand. Last year, more than 200 compounds were made, and it was normal for several projects to start at the same time, with one day off a week and overtime being the norm. I am not afraid of hardship or tiredness, but the hardest, most tiring and dangerous work is that we do it, and the papers and patents belong to foreigners and returnees, which makes me very depressed. Lao Cheng said and said, looking unhappy.

"That's a wool thread!" said the old smoker angrily.

"Actually, it's the same everywhere you jump, the world is as black as a crow. Lao Cheng shook his head helplessly, and then said enviously: "Lao Yan, you are really good, I saw the paper you published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, benzoazizoxane, we have made this kind of compound in our laboratory." ”

Shen Qi asked again: "Lao Cheng, if I outsource a project to your laboratory and only give you the route, similar to the paper you saw in Lao Yan, the benzoazizoid project, how long will it take for you to get the sample?"

Lao Cheng: "It depends on the details of the specific outsourcing contract, and the compounds in Lao Yan's paper are relatively complex, and we can get it done in about a week." ”

"Amazing. Shen Qi also has to admire the efficiency of private enterprises, in this industry environment, people must be efficient, otherwise they will not survive.

Lao Cheng seemed to have enlightened: "Big brother, you don't want to outsource the project for me, do you?"

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

Lao Cheng nodded: "My graduate school is organic, five years after graduation, I have worked in the same company for five years without changing jobs, and I have basically figured out what should be clear in this industry." ”

Shen Qi still smiled: "It's good, it's good." ”

Old Yan, who had been silent for a while, kept watching.

Lao Yan understood, Shen Qi said in the central laboratory just now, let's only design the route in the future and do the most cutting-edge research, which is what chemists should do.

A series of work behind the route design, Brother Shen seems to want to outsource...... Lao Yan had an epiphany, Brother Shen began to look for external resources, Big Brother is going to do business, he needs talents who are quite familiar with external resources and the outsourcing industry, not just recruiting a few senior experimenters.