Everything about Sarin

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: SarinA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Dynamic response and discrimination of gaseous sarin using a boron‐difluoride complex film‐based fluorescence sensorInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Gulf War and healthThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The effect of the human serum paraoxonase polymorphism is reversed with diazoxon, soman and sarinCited 499 times
5. Go sideways: VX (nerve agent)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Tabun (nerve agent)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The effect of the human serum paraoxonase polymorphism is reversed with diazoxon, soman and sarin

  Holly G. Davies, Rebecca J. Richter, Matthew Keifer · 1996 · Nature Genetics · 499 citations

• Report on 640 Victims of the Tokyo Subway Sarin Attack

  T OKUMURA, N TAKASU, S ISHIMATSU · 1996 · Annals of Emergency Medicine · 496 citations

• Sarin experiences in Japan: Acute toxicity and long-term effects

  N. Yanagisawa, H. Morita, T. Nakajima · 2006 · Journal of the Neurological Sciences · 299 citations

• Application of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry to the analysis of chemical warfare samples, found to contain residues of the nerve agent sarin, sulphur mustard and their degradation products

  Robin M. Black, Raymond J. Clarke, Robert W. Read · 1994 · Journal of Chromatography A · 273 citations

• Sarin poisoning in Matsumoto, Japan

  N Yanagisawa, H Morita, T Nakajima · 1995 · The Lancet · 240 citations

• Fatal sarin poisoning in Syria 2013: forensic verification within an international laboratory network

  Harald John, Marcel J. van der Schans, Marianne Koller · 2017 · Forensic Toxicology · 239 citations

• The Tokyo Subway Sarin Attack: Disaster Management, Part 2: Hospital Response*

  Tetsu Okumura, Kouichiro Suzuki, Atsuhiro Fukuda · 1998 · Academic Emergency Medicine · 237 citations

• The Tokyo Subway Sarin Attack: Disaster Management, Part 1: Community Emergency Response*

  Tetsu Okumura, Kouichiro Suzuki, Atsuhiro Fukuda · 1998 · Academic Emergency Medicine · 234 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Dynamic response and discrimination of gaseous sarin using a boron‐difluoride complex film‐based fluorescence sensor

  Zhijie Zhou, Lei Zhang, Lingya Peng · 2024 · Aggregate · 37 citations

• Closer Look at Adsorption of Sarin and Simulants on Metal–Organic Frameworks

  Alina Emelianova, Allen Reed, Elizaveta A. Basharova · 2023 · ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces · 36 citations

• Olfactory receptor-based CNT-FET sensor for the detection of DMMP as a simulant of sarin

  Jin Yoo, Daesan Kim, Heehong Yang · 2022 · Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical · 33 citations

• A PET and ESIPT-communicated ratiometric, turn-on chromo-fluorogenic sensor for rapid and sensitive detection of sarin gas mimic, diethylchlorophosphate

  Sabbir Ahamed, Manas Mahato, Najmin Tohora · 2023 · Talanta · 30 citations

• Exactly Restricting the Phenyl Ring Rotation in Metal‐Organic Framework for Ultra‐Sensitive and Specific Ratiometric Fluorescent Sensing of Sarin

  Cong Lyu, Chuanfang Zhao, Meimei Wang · 2025 · Aggregate · 29 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Gulf War and healthInstitute of Medicine, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention · 2004
• 📕オウム法廷Kenʼichi Furihata · 2003
• 📕Poksu nŭn na ŭi kŏtKyŏng-uk Kim · 2006
• Chemical and biological weaponsGregory Payan · 2000
• Re-evaluation of Drinking-Water Guidelines for Diisopropyl MethylphosphonateNational Research Council (US) · 2000
• 📕SarinShinsuke Kimura · 2015
• 📕Ngầm村上春樹 · 2009
• 📕The Gulf War air campaign · 2001

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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