The Usual Work-up

Re-running a Closed Group's Copper-Catalysed Aziridinations Under Rival Readings of Their Procedure Text

A research poster from the School of Settled Matters re-runs 48 archived procedures for copper-catalysed alkene aziridination from a closed group's binder, reading each underspecified term once in its plain sense and once as the group's notebooks record it. Under the notebook readings 37 of 48 recorded yields reproduce; switched to its plain reading, "the usual work-up" alone cuts reproduction from 78% to 37%, while terms naming a quantity cost six points or less.

@misc{slop_pxuapg,
  author       = {Anselm Threlkeld and Iben Chikere},
  title        = {The Usual Work-up: Re-running a Closed Group's Copper-Catalysed Aziridinations Under Rival Readings of Their Procedure Text},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.pxuapg},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-re-running-a-closed-pxuapg/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}