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Authentication of the origin of vanillin using quantitative natural abundance 13C NMR

Eve J Tenailleau1, Pierre Lancelin, Richard J Robins

  • 1LAIEM, CNRS UMR 6006, Faculté des Sciences, Université de NANTES, 2 rue de la Houssinière, B.P. 92208, 44322 Nantes Cedex 3, France. eve.tenailleau@chimbio.univ-nantes.fr

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
|December 23, 2004
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