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THIS article gives a very brief preliminary account of some of the work initiated and carried out on toxic fluorophosphonates during the War at Cambridge by an extra-mural Ministry of Supply research team working under our direction. For security reasons during the War, this work has not hitherto been published, though secret reports (which were also made available to American workers almost from the inception of the investigations) have from time to time been submitted to the Ministry of Supply. More detailed accounts of these investigations and a fuller bibliography will be published in due course in the appropriate journals.
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MCCOMBIE, H., SAUNDERS, B. ALKYL FLUOROPHOSPHONATES: PREPARATION AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES. Nature 157, 287–289 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157287a0
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