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Justyna Dominikowska1, Tadeusz Marek Krygowski2, Wojciech Piotr Ozimiński3

  • 1Department of Theoretical and Structural Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Łódź , Pomorska 163/165, 90-236 Łódź, Poland.

The Journal of Organic Chemistry
|September 1, 2015
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