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Chapter 157 WPG0156: Chirality? My husband is actually me? A flash of inspiration! 334K Subscribe

Faced with the information revealed by Fu Yuhang, An Huchun immediately asked, "What results?"

"Mo Li and I discovered that there is a special substance in ginseng extract. According to our research, this substance can effectively relieve the headache symptoms caused by staying up late, as well as the fatigue caused by high-intensity work, and problems such as lack of concentration," Fu Yuhang explained.

An Huchun immediately became interested and asked, "Have you told Taikang Jiuhe about this?"

Mo Li continued, "How can we possibly tell Taikang Jiuhe?"

Fu Yuhang added, "There is another reason why we didn't tell Taikang Jiuhe. The discovery of this special material is random."

An Huchun is also a scientific researcher. When he heard the word randomness, he frowned.

"Is there any pattern to this randomness?" An Huchun asked.

"There is no pattern." Fu Yuhang responded negatively.

"The first time we discovered this special substance was more than two years ago. At that time, we were conducting research on longevity factors and accidentally discovered the corresponding special substance," Fu Yuhang explained in detail.

"Later, Mo Li and I paid special attention to this matter. Every time we conducted research on longevity factors, we would also look for this special substance." Fu Yuhang added.

"But then the problem arises!" Fu Yuhang sighed.

"Sometimes, we can find the presence of this special substance in ginseng extract, but sometimes we can't," Fu Yuhang explained.

An Huchun asked, "What is this special substance?"

Fu Yuhang did not hide it. "It is a ginseng phenol, not one of the 18 common ginseng phenols. We temporarily named it [Energy Restoration Factor], and the specific academic name has not yet been determined."

An Huchun was puzzled. "Since it has been confirmed that it is a phenolic substance, it can be screened and separated on a large scale, right?"

"We have done all these things. After we discovered the existence of ginseng phenols, which are energy-restoring factors, we conducted many experiments and successfully screened and isolated them. We even studied their chemical structure," Fu Yuhang explained.

An Wuyang continued, "If that's the case, then you can definitely synthesize it artificially, right?"

Fu Yuhang denied it, "Boss An, do you think that knowing the chemical structure will allow us to synthesize it artificially?"

"Isn't it?" An Wuyang looked at An Huchun.

An Huchun said with a gloomy face, "In the past, when I asked you to study hard, you always had reasons. Now you know the pain of being uneducated, right?"

An Wuyang really wanted to say that he didn’t know!
An Wuyang doesn't need to know, because Fu Yuhang knows it is enough. An Wuyang just needs to employ Fu Yuhang well. Isn't that a better choice?

Mo Li defended An Wuyang, "In fact, Mr. An's understanding is not wrong."

"In theory, if we know the chemical structure, we can indeed achieve artificial synthesis." Mo Li talked about the theoretical situation.

"However, there are many difficulties in actual implementation, such as the complexity of the artificial synthesis steps," Mo Li added.

"Take the ginseng phenol [Energy Restoration Factor] as an example. We know its chemical structure, and then we try to synthesize it through chemical reactions. But the problem is that the steps for synthesizing [Energy Restoration Factor] are very complicated, involving multiple reaction steps, and each reaction step may have side reactions." Mo Li tried his best to answer An Wuyang in a way that is easy to understand.

Because Mo Li already knew that An Wuyang was not a professional scientific researcher, he might not understand these topics.

"When the synthesis steps are too complicated, the success rate of synthesis will be very low, the corresponding cost will be very high, or even impossible to synthesize at all," Mo Li added.

"Secondly, there is the technical difficulty. The synthesis of energy recovery factors requires specific experimental conditions and techniques, which increases the difficulty of artificial synthesis." Mo Li added.

Fu Yuhang continued, "There is another most critical problem, which is the problem of chirality."

"Chirality?" An Wuyang said that this question was beyond the scope again!

He is just an ordinary high school graduate, and a poor student at that. What is chirality?

An Huchun's face turned dark again!
Mo Li explained on behalf of Fu Yuhang. He stretched out his left and right hands and then put them together.

"When my left hand and right hand are put together, they are basically the same, right?" Mo Li answered in the simplest way possible.

An Wuyang nodded, "Yes."

"But the left hand and the right hand are different, right?" Mo Li asked again.

An Wuyang continued to nod, "That's right."

"Mr. An, do you know the concepts of chemical formula and molecular formula?" Mo Li asked carefully.

If An Wuyang says he doesn’t know, Mo Li will be completely confused!
really!

An Wuyang admitted openly, "I know a little, but not much."

Mo Li was silent for a moment before he took out his cell phone and retrieved a picture.

The picture shows the phthalimide group, which is a standard chirality problem. This problem once caused great trouble in the pharmaceutical industry.

"Mr. An, look at this picture. They are all phthalimide groups, but they are mirror images of each other, like the left hand and the right hand. This is what is called chirality." Mo Li explained.

"Okay, I get it. Now you are facing the problem of chirality?" An Wuyang guessed.

Fu Yuhang responded affirmatively, "Yes, but the specific situation is more complicated."

"To sum it up, in short, we do know the chemical structure of the energy recovery factor and have tried to synthesize it artificially, but we don't know which reaction step went wrong or which synthesis condition did not match, so we just can't synthesize it." Fu Yuhang sighed.

Murray added, "What's worse is that we don't even know if it is in ginseng, or which ginseng plant it is in."

Fu Yuhang nodded slightly in agreement, "When we were researching the energy recovery factor, sometimes we could find it several times a day, and sometimes we couldn't find it even once in several months."

"This situation even made us think that there was something wrong with our research. Perhaps we mistook other ginseng phenols for energy-restoring factors," Fu Yuhang sighed.

Mo Li continued, "We later ruled out instrument errors, experimental data errors and other problems, and finally determined that the energy recovery factor does exist, but we are not sure where it comes from."

"Mr. An, Mr. An, we hope to continue our research on energy recovery factors at dawn. As for longevity factors." Fu Yuhang only said half of it. Wouldn't this be considered a violation of the confidentiality clause?
However, language is magical. Sometimes, even if you only say half of something, the meaning you want to express is already very clear!
Although Fu Yuhang did not provide any detailed information about the longevity factor project, his hesitant attitude actually explains everything.

Originally, An Huchun and An Wuyang were doubting the authenticity of the longevity factor project. Now, doesn’t Fu Yuhang’s performance prove their guess?

"No problem!" An Huchun agreed directly, "Your research project at Wugengtian will be the [Energy Recovery Factor Project]."

An Huchun added, "How many people do you need to assist you in researching this project?"

"Choose at least a five-member team. We plan to conduct a more comprehensive study on the chirality of the energy recovery factor, and conduct in-depth research from the perspectives of point, line, surface, and volume, so as to thoroughly study the energy recovery factor." Fu Yuhang explained. Mo Li added, "If there are more people, we can expand the project team. After all, it is not easy to select the energy recovery factor from ginseng."

An Huchun thought about it for a moment, then responded, "Then I'll give you 10 people. You can choose ten from your former colleagues."

"That's great!" Mo Li responded.

An Huchun asked a more detailed question, "From what part of ginseng did you find the energy recovery factor, a type of ginsenoside?"

Faced with An Huchun's question, Fu Yuhang and Mo Li were both a little embarrassed.

After about seven or eight seconds, Fu Yuhang spoke again, "Actually, we don't know."

Fu Yuhang continued, "Director An, we are not sure which ginsengs have phenols such as energy recovery factors, and which ginsengs do not. In addition, due to the limitations of research conditions, we are not sure where this ginseng phenol comes from."

"Our first step is to study what kind of ginseng has the energy-restoring factor, namely ginseng phenols," Fu Yuhang added.

An Wuyang was listening to Fu Yuhang and Mo Li's explanation. He took out his cell phone and sent a message to An Huchun.

'An Wuyang: Dad, what is this ginseng phenol? Why does it sound like the unexpected situation we encountered before?'

'An Huchun: What unexpected situation?'

'An Wuyang: Didn't you encounter the same random problem when you were researching the Ningzhi Ruoxue series of products?'

'An Wuyang: The use of the bitter orange flower essential oil produced in our Tianjingyan medicinal material planting base makes the Ningzhi Ruoxue series of products have a magical effect, but if we do not use the bitter orange flower essential oil produced in the Tianjingyan medicinal material planting base, there will be no such effect.'

'An Wuyang: So I guess the energy recovery factor they mentioned also exists in this situation?'

'An Wuyang: Only ginseng from certain places has the energy-restoring factor.'

It is very normal that the same medicinal material has different effects in different places of origin.

An Huchun looked at the message sent by An Wuyang, and a light bulb went off in his head. It seemed that this was really the case?

So An Huchun asked, "When you were doing research in Taikang Jiuhe, where did you purchase your ginseng from?"

An Huchun added, "Does Taikang Jiuhe have a cooperative medicinal herb planting base?"

Fu Yuhang responded, "Taikang Jiuhe does not have any cooperative medicinal herb planting bases."

As for Taikang Jiuhe Company’s own medicinal herb planting base?
That’s even less possible!

A medicinal material planting base is not something that ordinary pharmaceutical companies can handle.

Taking the Tianjingyan medicinal herb planting base as an example, its area is as large as 1.5 acres. The land rent and other things can be ignored. Just say that the Tianjingyan medicinal herb planting base has 162 staff members. How much human resource cost will it require?
Anyway, the annual human resource cost of Anhuchun at Tianjingyan medicinal material planting base is close to 10 million!

In addition, it is difficult to make money by developing basic agriculture in the first few years, and it requires continuous investment.

For example, the medicinal herbs planted on 1.5 acres of land in the Tianjingyan medicinal herb planting base also have huge costs. How can ordinary pharmaceutical companies afford this?
"When we were doing research at Taikang Jiuhe, we purchased all the ginseng from outside for our research," Fu Yuhang added.

An Huchun asked, "What are the purchasing channels? Where is the ginseng produced?"

Fu Yuhang immediately lowered his head and frowned slightly to think. After An Huchun's questioning, Fu Yuhang also thought of the answer in an instant!

"Ginseng from different origins has different qualities and even different medicinal properties." Fu Yuhang seemed to be talking to himself.

"In addition, we also tested different types of ginseng, not just ginseng, but also red ginseng, American ginseng, etc." Fu Yuhang still seemed to be talking to himself.

Mo Li continued, "Most of our ginseng is purchased online, after all, it is cheaper, but a small part is purchased in the herbal medicine trading market."

"Did you record the time when the energy recovery factor was discovered and the corresponding ginseng batch information purchased?" An Huchun asked.

Fu Yuhang responded affirmatively, "Of course!"

"We have made detailed records of this information," Fu Yuhang added.

"Then check now. When you discover the energy recovery factor, where the corresponding ginseng comes from." An Huchun ordered.

An Wuyang was listening silently on the side. He certainly knew the answer, but he couldn't say it directly.

Because theoretically, he had no reason to know the answer.

As a nurturing player in the field of scientific research, An Wuyang chose to remain silent.

He was just able to remind An Huchun, and that was the best he could do.

"Okay, we'll check it right away." Fu Yuhang agreed.

"Mr. An, we need a laptop. It's a bit troublesome to operate with a mobile phone." Mo Li made the request.

An Wuyang immediately agreed, "Wait a moment, I have a laptop in my office."

An Wuyang returned to his office. Of course he had an office at the headquarters of Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group. After all, he was the sales director of Wugengtian.

When An Wuyang brought the laptop over, Mo Li started operating it immediately.

Less than half an hour later, Mo Li first looked at the verified data, and then he looked at An Huchun and An Wuyang repeatedly with quite strange eyes.

"What's going on?" An Huchun felt a little uncomfortable with Mo Li's gaze.

Fu Yuhang also asked, "Mo Li, don't keep me in suspense!"

Mo Li pushed the laptop in front of An Huchun and motioned An Huchun to check the verification information on the laptop screen himself.

An Huchun checked it immediately, and then his expression became strange.

Fu Yuhang was also checking the information on the screen, and finally said hesitantly, "So we found that the source of the ginseng with energy recovery factor is actually from the Tianjingyan medicinal material planting base in Wugengtian?"

Mo Li said in an uncertain tone, "Our records are not complete. The two only match about 60%. However, the unmatched information is just the lack of specific information, not other origin information."

"Mr. An, do you also grow ginseng at your Tianjingyan medicinal herb planting base?" Mo Li asked.

(End of this chapter)