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Veemal Bhowruth1, Alistair K Brown, Robert C Reynolds

  • 1School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.

Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
|August 1, 2006
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