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Xiaolai Zheng1, Mary E Mulcahy, Dominik Horinek

  • 1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0215, USA.

Journal of the American Chemical Society
|April 9, 2004
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