title: Adventures with carbons 11, 12, 13 and 14.
abstract: I provide here a glimpse of my involvement with different isotopes of carbon. In my 65 years of synthetic work with C-12, I had experience working with C-11 (one year, 1942-1943), C-13 (one year, 1999) and C-14 (67 years, 1943-2009). I have also included a postscript dealing with my 1951 communication on the 5-carbon intermediate in photosynthesis.
authors.affiliation: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, San Diego, CA 92093-0202, USA. abenson@ucsd.edu
authors.forename: Andrew Alm
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Benson
mesh_terms: D002244:Carbon; D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D002621:Chemistry / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D010788:Photosynthesis
chemical_list: D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D002244:Carbon