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Ruo Yuan1, Shozo Watanabe, Susumu Kuwabata

  • 1Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University, Yamada-oka 2-1, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan.

The Journal of Organic Chemistry
|April 18, 1997
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