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Susan E Bailey1, Rebecca A Eikey, Mahdi M Abu-Omar

  • 1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.

Inorganic Chemistry
|April 2, 2002
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