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Claudio F Meyer1,2, Sandrine M Hell1, Antonio Misale2

  • 1University of Oxford, Chemistry Research Laboratory, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TA, UK.

Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|April 26, 2019
PubMed

Keywords:
difluoroacetic acidhydrodifluoromethylationhypervalent iodine compoundsphotochemistryradicals

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