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Capturing transient structures in the elimination reaction of haloalkane in solution by transient X-ray diffraction

Jae Hyuk Lee1, Tae Kyu Kim, Joonghan Kim

  • 1Center for Time-Resolved Diffraction, Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 305-701, Korea.

Journal of the American Chemical Society
|April 16, 2008
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