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. 2020 Apr 7;117(14):7553-7554.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2003384117. Epub 2020 Mar 31.

Toxic ketene gas forms on vaping vitamin E acetate prompting interest in its possible role in the EVALI outbreak

Robert M Strongin  1
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Toxic ketene gas forms on vaping vitamin E acetate prompting interest in its possible role in the EVALI outbreak

Robert M Strongin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
The pyrolysis reaction of phenyl acetate to produce ketene reported in 1938 and the analogous transformation of vitamin E acetate to ketene recently shown to occur on heating and aerosolization in a commercial vaping device.
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