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A Customizable Approach for the Enzymatic Production and Purification of Diterpenoid Natural Products
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Correction: Dynamic behavior of rearranging carbocations - implications for terpene biosynthesis
Stephanie R Hare1, Dean J Tantillo1
1Department of Chemistry, University of California-Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
|September 15, 2017
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.12.41.].
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