Green Chemistry @ MUN

Yi’s paper on transformations of our platform molecule 3A5AF, which can be obtained from N-Acetyl-D-Glucosamine (the monomer of chitin from crustacean shells), is available as an ASAP article in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. Congrats to all the students involved

Y. Liu, C. Staehler, J. N. Murphy, B. J. Furlong, and F. M. Kerton, “Formation of a renewable amine and an alcohol via transformations of 3-acetamido-5-acetylfuran”, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering,  Just Accepted Manuscript, DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b00323