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Letter: Letter

Published 29 May 2004

From Peter Millington

The chemical information company Accelrys has been selling a failed reactions database for several years. As well as helping chemists avoid wasting effort and materials on doomed syntheses, the actual reactions are sometimes more interesting than those intended.

Long Eaton, Derbyshire, UK

Issue no. 2449 published 29 May 2004

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