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Liwen Fan1, Chunyu Han1, Xuerong Li1

  • 1College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, China.

Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|January 10, 2018
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Keywords:
Brønsted acidasymmetric synthesispolyene cyclizationsterpenestotal synthesis

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