Tertiary Amines Differentiated from Primary and Secondary Amines by Active Ester-Functionalized Hexabenzoperylene in

Changqing Li1, Yujing Wang1, Tiankai Zhang2

  • 1Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China.

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