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Vincent Croué1, Sébastien Goeb2, György Szalóki1

  • 1Université d'Angers, CNRS UMR 6200, Laboratoire MOLTECH-Anjou, 2 bd Lavoisier, 49045, Angers Cedex, France.

Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|December 24, 2015
PubMed

Keywords:
cage compoundsself-assemblysulfur heterocyclessupramolecular chemistrytetrathiafulvalene

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