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Alexander S Hegg1, Ryan S Donnelly1, Jeremy E Weber1

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Yale University, 225 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|June 5, 2025
PubMed
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Keywords:
CyanateIsocyanideNitrideRhenium

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