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Jianyou Zhao1, Jiaoyang Liu1, Zi-Ao Zhang1

  • 1Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Chinese Medicinal Resources Industrialization, College of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|October 4, 2026
PubMed

Keywords:
alkyl halidescarboxylic esterselectrochemistryradical‐radical cross‐couplingssaturated C─C bonds

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