Sometimes prayers happen. Sometimes the prayed for thing happens by co-incidence (I.e it happens) and sometimes, just sometimes, one IS the prayer taking force. Maybe you need to break the buggers legs, cover her in blood from the butchers soaked into her clothing and kick her off a boat in the middle of the ocean. Or a reef infested with tiger sharks. Those buggers will eat anything, living, dead, or that which has never had life. They've been found with tinned food, still in the tin can in their insides. They are sometimes referred to as 'the dustbins of the sea'. Big enough said preppy prissy little slagchops won't stand a chance, and one of the most aggressive of all the carnivorous sharks. Mean, bad tempered vicious bastards and well known to attack people.
1-lab workups being simple and easy 9 times out of 10, or 7-8 if 'im upstairs isn't feeling so generous. Easy selective monoacylation or mono-alkylation of a certain secondary diamine would be really nice too while he's at it.
2-waking up to find a certain somebody well known to the OP, distinctive for having really gorgeous big brown eyes in particular who looks kinda DFG-ish in some ways is there wherever the waking up is done.
3- never again breaking a piece of glass you haven't got a replacement for, or a clamp in somewhere critical, or a bit of metal unseen to one side under the hotplate, preventing the mag stirrer from moving, and after spotting it, the stirrer suddenly 'kicking' full force and punching a pair of holes through your only unoccupied 100ml 2-necked RBF (round bottom flask) whilst its full of carcinogenic, toxic, probably mutagenic, corrosive, acid-releasing moisture-sensitive alkenyl halide resulting in the same being fired like a jet from a watercannon across the bloody room while one dives out of the way to avoid the twin gouts of same plus the substrate that took getting closer to two weeks than one to isolate a couple of grams of, and losing all but a few hundred milligrams or so, whilst you attempt to soak up as much as possible into tissue paper for later attempting to recover same. All the while trying to get the hell to the power socket and pull the plug without getting covered in acid chloride and alkenyl halide. Neither of which are pleasant and avoid a dousing in icy-cold rapidly evaporating pentane and poisonous hexane while your swearing in every language you know bar ASL at the top of your lungs through your gas mask. All because as far as you can tell, some styx-accursed whoreson porcine imbecile stole your stirbars.
4-thoroughly logical doctors who operate by evidence based medicine and practical results rather than allow themselves to be guided by emotional opinions. Who do what it is the facts support regardless of what they themselves think of this, that or the other remedy or approach to a problem.
5-a tricorder for the lab. A replicator would be damn tempting but that would be...well strictly limited in use at best because otherwise that would take the challenge factor right out of one's synthetic work. And if prayer no.5 is granted then I get an extra one answered because any broken glass could be replaced in a matter of seconds.
So...6-enough money for a comfortable life, and in particular, a LC-MS setup along with an IR spectrophotometer. Hell any kind of mass spec, either GC or LC. ICP even would be better than none, I'd probably sell the latter and buy an LC-MS (MS stands in this case not for the nasty disease, but for mass spectrometer, a highly sensitive and accurate kind of analytical equipment used by chemists for identifying compounds unknown and proportions of compounds in mixtures. They use various methods for breaking down the compounds into ions and the retention in a chromatographic system beforehand plus the mass and charge info on the resultant ions is used to identify the chemical/s)
Way more than I can afford. And very complex, although its not impossible I might be able to build an ion-trap type mass spec or a sector-MS based spectrophotometer without the chromatographic factor and use it for comparisons with known samples, something like the calutron technology used for isotope separation in the beginnings of the russki nuclear program before the technology of gas centrifuges was developed, or more advanced methods still like the use of tunable dye lasers to selectively ionize and separate one over another isotope of an element. Calutrons are old-school nuclear technology really, but I could see them being used with a reference library, or for comparatively getting an idea of differing substituents on a known target molecule, when following a reaction to see what actually WENT on, as opposed to what SHOULD have GONE on, what could have been going on as side reactions for determining relative yield. Etc. LC-MS is liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry, GC-gas chromatography, where the substrate is analysed in the gas phase, and ICP-induction coupled plasma mass spec, IIRC primarily used for isotopic analyses and metallic element-based analyses. Not really an organic and biotech-hacker's tool of the trade but still bloody expensive and I'd offload it as soon as a buyer with deep enough pockets to fund a LC or GC-MS for me was found. If there was change, then an IR-spectrophotometer, which if I save I may actually be able to pick up on ebay secondhand if I get lucky and wait long enough or even build myself)
