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Quantifying the Binding Interactions Between Cu(II) and Peptide Residues in the Presence and Absence of Chromophores
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Two-photon-absorption technique for selective detection of copper(II) ions in aqueous solution using a dansyl-pyrene
Vadapalli Chandrasekhar1, Mrituanjay D Pandey, Sandeep Kumar Maurya
1Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur-208016, India. vc@iitk.ac.in
Chemistry, an Asian Journal
|July 5, 2011
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