Lead Author J. T. Fu (IMAGE)

Emory Health Sciences

Lead Author J. T. Fu

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"We can change a cheap and abundant hydrocarbon with limited usefulness into a valuable scaffold for developing new compounds -- such as pharmaceuticals and other fine chemicals," says J.T. Fu (above), a graduate student at Emory University and first author of the paper.

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