Computational studies of [1]benzothieno[2,3-c]naphtho[1,2-f]quinoline

Valentin A Semenov1, Gary E Martin2, Leonid B Krivdin1

  • 1A.E. Favorsky Irkutsk Institute of Chemistry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia.

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