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Improved identification of metabolites in complex mixtures using HSQC NMR spectroscopy

Yuanxin Xi1, Jeffrey S de Ropp, Mark R Viant

  • 1Department of Applied Science, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA.

Analytica Chimica Acta
|April 19, 2008
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