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From: CHAS membership <membership**At_Symbol_Here**DCHAS.ORG>
Subject: [DCHAS-L] Safety information in the chemical literature
Date: Aug 4, 2022 12:27 UTC
Reply-To:
ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety
In-Reply-To:
Jeremiah Gassensmith
**At_Symbol_Here**Gassensmith
With reference to https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.joc.9b00914
I'd like to pitch something to **At_Symbol_Here**JOC_OL . Put corrections that involve safety warnings on the downloadable PDF. You really can't warn people enough. Let's take this nice but "corrected" paper. Who wouldn't want an "intrinsically safe" diazo-transfer reagent?
The problem is that this compound turns out to be explosive as a solid and the authors have corrected that here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.joc.9b00914â?|.
The compound clearly isn't "intrinsically safe" and considering it explodes the downloadable PDF should be marked.
Again, here's another "stable" and non-explodey diazotranfer reagent: (spoiler: it also explodes as a solid)
Again, a correctionâ??the title compound explodes. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ol2007555 â?| and again, the PDF doesn't mention it.
Here's my pitchâ??Yes, the website shows a correction, though it doesn't specify that it is safety related. If the consequence of not seeing that correction is blowing a few fingers off then that notice needs to be plastered everywhere *including and especially* the downloaded PDF
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