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1Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India.
Organic Letters
|January 27, 2006
Abstract:
[reaction: see text]. The normal and inverse micellar property of a bile-acid-based dendritic structure was established through dye solubilization studies in both polar and nonpolar media.
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