OH-stretching overtone spectra of primary and secondary alcohols

Casper Vindahl Jensen1, Emil Vogt1, Pablo Bertran Valls1

  • 1Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, Copenhagen-Ø, DK-2100, Denmark.

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