The target pheromone's cyclization proceeded very smoothly, but Xu Yun didn't let his guard down in the slightest.
The Biomedical Laboratory was available for fourteen days. On the surface, the research group would be considered successful as long as they synthesized fourth-generation Imidacloprid within that time.
But as mentioned earlier, Xu Yun's ultimate goal was far more ambitious than just a fourth generation.
Since this experiment required a great deal of equipment, the entire project had borrowed the name of Tian Liangwei's supporting project from the very beginning.
Once the time limit was up, even Tian Liangwei would have a hard time providing Xu Yun with such good experimental conditions again.
So this was arguably Xu Yun's best opportunity. Missing it could delay the development of fifth-generation Imidacloprid at best, and at worst might affect the unlocking of Knowledge Points and the spacetime instance.
Thus, after completing the target pheromone's cyclization, Xu Yun and the others didn't slack off in the slightest. They continued stirring the reaction for twelve hours.
Then, in the early hours of the next morning, they quenched the reaction in an ice bath using a saturated NH4Cl solution.
At this point, all that remained was to synthesize the pheromone-binding protein with Imidacloprid, the main area of expertise for the biology graduate students.
Put simply, this step was about getting lucky again and again. The cyclized pheromone-binding protein was like an iron ring. For the sake of understanding, imagine it divided into twelve sections like the hours on a clock.
Xu Yun and the others had to drop a small steel ball from above. Since they had cyclized the region from nine to twelve o'clock, the ball was bound to land somewhere between nine and twelve.
But those divisions weren't nearly precise enough. The synthesis would only