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4-Picoline-2,2':6',2"-terpyridine-platinum(II) - a potent intercalator of DNA

A McCoubrey1, H C Latham, P R Cook

  • 1Dyson Perrins Laboratory, Oxford University, UK.

FEBS Letters
|February 12, 1996
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