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Junping Zhou1, Zhu Chen1, Yi Wang2

  • 1Department of Biosystems Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA.

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology
|May 27, 2020
PubMed

Keywords:
Aldehyde derivativesAldehydesBiocatalysisChemocatalysisDe novo biosynthesis

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