Studies on the properties of organoselenium(IV) fluorides and azides

Thomas M Klapötke1, Burkhard Krumm, Matthias Scherr

  • 1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany. tmk@cup.uni-muenchen.de

Inorganic Chemistry
|April 30, 2008
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