N3-kethoxal and its history

How was N3-kethoxal invented? AccuraDX's Scientific Co-Founder Professor Chuan He and his laboratory at The University of Chicago invented N3-kethoxal, also called azide kethoxal. The IUPAC name for azide kethoxal is 3-(2-azidoethoxy)-1,1-dihydroxybutan-2-one. The history of azide kethoxal is simple and elegant. It begins with di-aldehyde glyoxal, a metabolic product that...