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Eline J Koers1, Elwin A W van der Cruijsen, Melanie Rosay

  • 1NMR Spectroscopy, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Journal of Biomolecular NMR
|October 7, 2014
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