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Real-time Monitoring of Reactions Performed Using Continuous-flow Processing: The Preparation of 3-Acetylcoumarin as an Example
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Published on: November 18, 2015

Rates of elementary reactions: measurement and applications

F Kaufman

    Science (New York, N.Y.)
    |October 25, 1985
    PubMed

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