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Joseph M Ellsworth1, Hans-Conrad Zur Loye

  • 1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA.

Dalton Transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)
|December 17, 2008
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