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The Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity of a Series of Ruthenium N-triphosPh Complexes
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Structure of ristocetin A

J R Fehlner, R E Hutchinson, D S Tarbell

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    |September 1, 1972
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