First time failure?

I think maybe! Reaction is nice and yellow, but I think there's a good whack of the wrong potassium salt in there too.....hmmmm......lovely.....time to make an amide, I know what I'm doing there!

Yes, expect this to be rather chemistry heavy for the next week or so, since I've got nothing much else to talk about in particular - getting some new friends will be coming high up the agenda, no?