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Stanislav I Presolski1, Vu Hong, So-Hye Cho

  • 1Department of Chemistry and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.

Journal of the American Chemical Society
|September 25, 2010
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