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Reproducibility

Bruce Gibb looks back at some examples of irreproducible reactions in his own laboratory and suggests ways in which the reproducibility of chemical reactions can be maximized.

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Gibb, B. Reproducibility. Nature Chem 6, 653–654 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2017

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