Comparison Study of the Site-Effect on Regioisomeric Pyridyl-Pyrene Conjugates: Synthesis, Structures, and

Qing Lu1, Goutam Kumar Kole2, Alexandra Friedrich2

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China.

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