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Debashis Mandal1, Atsushi D Yamaguchi, Junichiro Yamaguchi

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan.

Journal of the American Chemical Society
|November 15, 2011
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