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Palladium induced macrocyclic preorganization for stabilization of a tetrathiafulvalene mixed-valence dimer

Christopher Bejger1, Christina M Davis, Jung Su Park

  • 1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station A5300, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.

Organic Letters
|August 17, 2011
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