“…Because hexaric acids have four stereochemically diverse secondary hydroxy groups and two carboxyl groups, they have been studied since the 1950s as platform chemicals for producing chelating agents and corrosion inhibitors [10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21], precursors for polyamides [22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36], polyesters [37,38,39,40,41], polyanhydrides [42], polycations [43], coordination polymers including metal–organic frameworks [44,45,46,47,48], pendant polymers [49], macromolecules [50,51], cross-linkers in hydrogels [52], medicines [8,9,10,11,49,51,53], and other compounds including platform chemicals, like adipic acid and furan dicarboxylic acid [54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62].…”