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A novel formalism to characterize the degree of unsaturation of organic molecules

M Badertscher1, K Bischofberger, M E Munk

  • 1Department of Organic Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Universitätstrasse 16, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland. badertscher@org.chem.ethz.ch

Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences
|August 14, 2001
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