Why you should treat every compound as if it were dangerous: the toxicity of norbornadienyl bromides: Winstein, JACS 1961, 83, 1516
Monday, October 17, 2011
“There is no a priori reason to believe that these particular compounds are more dangerous to man than several related substances widely used as industrial chemicals; however, of the three laboratory workers who have used the dibromides and bromohydrin VII, two later developed similar pulmonary disorders which contributed to their subsequent deaths. The third has exhibited minor skin sensitivity reactions.”
