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Papers That Got Off to a Good Start

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This week, an interesting discussion on Twitter was sparked by the publication of this paper in JACS:

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That’s a great first sentence to a paper, and soon people chimed in with other memorable examples.

 

Tehshik Yoon pointed out this review on C-H activation as his favorite:

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…which Nicolas Fanget countered with a microbiology paper from 2000 that begins with a quote from Monty Python’s Flying Circus:

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My personal favorite belongs to the man himself, R.B. Woodward, who began a 1963 paper with the simple exclamation, “Strychnine!”:

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Are there any other chemistry papers out there with memorable openings?


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