Reason deconstruction

In this section, we seek to identify materials that are the reasonable first structures to arise from biomass deconstruction, and to describe how chemically catalyzed processes are being developed for their production. For that reason, commercially practiced processes that use catalysis, such as the reduction of glucose to sorbitol, are mentioned only briefly or not at all. Chemical catalysis will certainly play an additional role in the further conversion of these initial building blocks into secondary intermediates or final marketplace products (e.g., oxidative conversion of levulinic acid into succinic acid), but such multistep possibilities are outside the scope of this discussion. 

In addition to the economic and technical reasons that support modularity, it can assist in a medical product gaining acceptance. If the product can be viewed by the clinician as having a number of modules that are familiar, along with some new functionality, it may be easier to introduce than a system that is viewed as an entirely new approach. Most medical professionals are somewhat conservative and like to be on ground that is at least somewhat familiar. This could be a consideration in choice of architecture and even in the details of the deconstruction process. 

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