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Yunju Zhang1, Ruojing Song2, Yuxi Sun3

  • 1Key Laboratory of Photoinduced Functional Materials, Mianyang Normal University, Mianyang 621000, PR China; Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, PR China.

Spectrochimica Acta. Part A, Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
|August 13, 2018
PubMed

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CH(2) = CHCH(2)FO((3)P)PESRRKMReaction mechanism

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