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Gustavo P Silveira1, Misael Ferreira, Luciano Fernandes

  • 1Departamento de Química, Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.

Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
|September 13, 2012
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