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[Research for the improvement of acylation conditions in antistaphylococcal penicillin synthesis]

Cătălina Daniela Stan1, Alina Stefanache, Maria Drăgan

  • 1Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie "Gr. T. Popa", Iaşi, Facultatea de Farmacie, Disciplina de Industria Medicamentului şi Biotehnologii Farmaceutice.

Revista Medico-Chirurgicala a Societatii De Medici Si Naturalisti Din Iasi
|November 4, 2011
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