Talk:Tolcapone
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This is not a joke: I attended the University of Kansas Medical Center, where the namer of this drug once worked. It was well known at the institution that this person was an Al Capone fan. He later worked for the drug company that developed Tolcapone. There was an employee contest to name the drug and his Al Capone-inspired appellation won. Tolcapone was born. This is, of course, "original research." I'm hoping the Wikipedia folks will overlook this.
Unfortunately, I cannot cite a published source. I can only give my word, as someone who worked in the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology, & Therapeutics at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Of course, I understand that this is probably not acceptable evidence and that it constitutes original research. I was just hoping to sneak that by. Sorry. I just think it is a fun factoid. Oh well.—Precedingunsigned comment added by65.26.120.184 (talk)20:14, 29 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I removed the technical flag after rewriting the 2008 synthesis as a narrative that describes the purpose of each step. This should make it slightly clearer for readers with the necessary background knowledge.Roches (talk)08:41, 21 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
