And Now For Something Completely Different 9: Typographical Mistakes Of Yesteryear
Thanks to a co-worker, I recently became aware of a rather unique aside published within Thomas Tidewell's somewhat dated Tetrahedron Report on the Addition Reactions of Ketenes (Tetrahedron, 1986, 42, 2587–1613). Found spread over pages 2587–2588 is the following:
It turns out that this note originates from a satirical piece in Chemistry in Britain (Chem. Br., 1965, 1, 230) published some 20 years previously. As far as I can tell, the root cause was an unfortunate typo in a Chemical Abstracts entry (Chem. Abst., 1965, 62,1561d) report from Paris on the discovery of a new chemical species—namely "O-Silylated Vinyl Ketene Animals"—by K. Vijayakumaran. If only such errors were uncommon enough (and chemists good natured enough) for this kind of banter in the literature of today! Have a good weekend!
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September 1st, 2013 - 13:57
I imagine that sort of error might be more common today, as computers autocorrect aminal to animal…
September 23rd, 2013 - 09:36
The latest JACS Select (pubs.acs.org/JACSbeta/jvi/issue22.html; lots of free articles) is about Terpenoid and Shikimate-Derived Natural Product Total Synthesis.