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- Author: David Bradley
- Published: 23 May 2011
- Copyright: WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
- Source / Publisher: Chemical Communication
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The researchers do not offer a plausible mechanism for this rule breaking.
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DOI: 10.1039/C1CC10881F
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