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Manivannan Ethirajan1, Penny Joshi, White H William

  • 1Chemistry Division, PDT center, Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263, USA.

Organic Letters
|March 23, 2011
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