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Martin G Gotsev1, Petko M Ivanov

  • 1Laboratory of Physical Organic and Computational Chemistry, Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, ul. Acad. G. Bonchev, bloc 9, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria.

The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B
|April 7, 2009
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