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Nature volume 441, pages 800–801 (2006)Cite this article

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An impressive 37-step chemical synthesis published this year (J. La Clair Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 45, 2769–2773; 2006) has been called into question.

Scott Rychnovsky, a chemist at the University of California, Irvine, says the synthesis of the chemical hexacyclinol is “an impossibility” if his computational paper is right (S. D. Rychnovsky Org. Lett. doi:10.1021/ol0611346; 2006).

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    Although Edwin Hubble published observations made at Yerkes Observatory, and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was affiliated with the observatory, neither of them is known to have used its 40-inch telescope.

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