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Rice University: Cerium Sidelines Silver to Make Drug Precursor
February 27, 2021
HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. 27 (TNSJou) -- Rice University issued the following news release:

Save your silver! It's better used for jewelry than as a catalyst for drugs.

Rice University scientists have developed a greatly simplified method to make fluoroketones, precursors for drug design and manufacture that typically require a silver catalyst.

Rice chemist Julian West and graduate students Yen-Chu Lu and Helen Jordan introduced a process for the rapid and scala . . .

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