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A Direct, Early Stage Guanidinylation Protocol for the Synthesis of Complex Aminoguanidine-containing Natural Products
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Effects of urea and guanidine hydrochloride on peptide and nonpolar groups

P K Nandi, D R Robinson

    Biochemistry
    |December 18, 1984
    PubMed

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