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Sebastian Bette1,2, Jörg Stelzner3, Gerhard Eggert2

  • 1Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstr. 1, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany.

Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|February 18, 2020
PubMed

Keywords:
X-ray diffractioncalciumcarboxyalate ligandshelical structuresstructure elucidation

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