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Alexander K Mengele1, Dominik Weixler2, Sebastian Amthor1

  • 1Institute of Inorganic Chemistry I, Materials and Catalysis, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081, Ulm, Germany.

Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
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