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Shu-Li You1, Jeffery W Kelly

  • 1Department of Chemistry and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.

The Journal of Organic Chemistry
|November 25, 2003
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