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From: CHAS membership <membership**At_Symbol_Here**DCHAS.ORG>
Subject: [DCHAS-L] Safety information in the chemical literature
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 08:27:28 -0400
Reply-To: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU>
Message-ID: 33AB1C3D-80EA-4BAB-AAF4-C1A08C240468**At_Symbol_Here**dchas.org

Demystify: 

Hereâ??s an interesting twitter thread related to our discussion the challenges of recognizing and managing lab explosion hazards in the chemical literature:

Jeremiah Gassensmith
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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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