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Yun Yan1, Wei Xiong, Jianbin Huang

  • 1State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China.

The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B
|July 21, 2006
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