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Mieke M E Huijbers1, Wuyuan Zhang1, Fabio Tonin1

  • 1Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629, HZ, Delft, The Netherlands.

Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|August 15, 2018
PubMed

Keywords:
biocatalysisbiofuelsdecarboxylationfatty acidsphotocatalysis

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