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Sivapriya Kirubakaran1, Devarajulu Sureshkumar2, Srinivasan Chandrasekaran3

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Palaj, Gandhinagar, 382355, Gujarat, India.

Chemical Record (New York, N.Y.)
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Keywords:
Aziridine ring-openingCarbohydrate scaffoldSelenosugarTandem one-pot reactionsTetraselenotungstateTetrathiomolybdateThiosugar

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