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Min Zhu1,2, Hao Xu1,2, Xiao Zhang1,3

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Lu, Shanghai, 200032, China.

Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
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arenecycloadditiondearomatizationindolephotocatalysis

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