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S Acharya1, A Földesi, J Chattopadhyaya

  • 1Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Box 581, Biomedical Center, Uppsala University, S-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden.

The Journal of Organic Chemistry
|March 1, 2003
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