In 2001, Chris Orvig was happy when his team had synthesized a molecule with potential therapeutic applications. He and his colleagues published their findings in a 2002 paper in Inorganic Chemistry. Over a decade later, Orvig discovered a pivotal error in the paper: The authors had misidentified the compound. Orvig, a professor of chemistry at […]

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