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28Mar/123

A Little Self Deprecation in Tetrahedron

This caught my eye while reading Tetrahedron this morning. At first I thought it was a mistake, but then I realised that it was also in the PDF as well, presumably okayed by the authors. I think it's pretty funny to see this title in the TOC with 'Orginal Research Article' next to it:

Strangely, the rest of the paper seems quite confident. I guess time will tell.

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  1. Martyn
    April 3rd, 2012 - 13:24

    At least their reagents are the right way up:

    http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo3001854

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  2. Paul
    April 4th, 2012 - 20:27

    IMHO, this is only a mistranslation. I know for sure that Frenchies are far from being all fluent in English (I know my people) so that probably meant to be “a few” or “some”.

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    • BRSM
      April 5th, 2012 - 08:02

      Yeah, I think you’re probably right. A French girl in my lab often makes this mistake (saying ‘few’ instead of ‘a few’). It is funny to be invited out for ‘few beers’ after a viva, though!

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