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Multisite effects on intervalence charge transfer in a clusterlike trinuclear assembly containing ruthenium and

Deanna M D'Alessandro1, Murray S Davies, F Richard Keene

  • 1School of Pharmacy and Molecular Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

Inorganic Chemistry
|February 14, 2006
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