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Edward Turos1, Timothy E Long, Bart Heldreth

  • 1Department of Chemistry, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, CHE 207, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA. eturos@shell.cas.usf.edu

Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
|February 14, 2006
PubMed

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