Li Chen and Michael Wong (IMAGE)

Rice University

Li Chen and Michael Wong

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Rice University's Li Chen and Michael Wong and colleagues in Dalian, China, have discovered a new way to make extremely pure levoglucosan, a rare sugar compound that drugmakers and synthetic chemists can use to build larger molecules.

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Jeff Fitlow/Rice University

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