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Beyond samarium diiodide: vistas in reductive chemistry mediated by lanthanides(II)

Michal Szostak1, David J Procter

  • 1School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.

Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|August 16, 2012
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