Post 212002 (https://www.thevespiary.org/talk/index.php?topic=9255.msg21200200#msg21200200)
(Rhodium: "Easy nitroethane in quantitative yield", Methods Discourse), with its quantitative nitroethane synthesis, was a flurry of citations about producing the initial alpha-bromopropionic acid. It's easy as sin, look at all the people that know how to do it. Citation wars just don't tend to produce plain English discussions, which are more beneficial to beez who don't live in libraries.