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Development of Heterogeneous Enantioselective Catalysts using Chiral Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs)
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Zhu1, Lin

  • 1Department of Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu Institute of Petro-Chemical Technology, Changzhou, 213016, People's Republic of China

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
|January 27, 1998
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