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IT has long been a matter of interest to synthesize 2-deoxy-D-ribose, a component sugar of deoxyribonucleic acid, and several methods have been reported1. We wish to communicate some results which we obtained recently.
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MATSUSHIMA, Y., IMANAGA, Y. A New Synthesis of 2-Deoxy-D-ribose. Nature 171, 475 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/171475a0
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