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Determination of the Gas-phase Acidities of Oligopeptides
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Determination of the Gas-phase Acidities of Oligopeptides

Published on: June 24, 2013

A simple spectrophotometric determination of solid supported amino groups

T T Ngo

    Journal of Biochemical and Biophysical Methods
    |June 1, 1986
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