Novel synthesis of photochromic polymers via ROMP

Organic Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 18, 2000, Pages 2749-2751

  Myles, Andrew J ^a   Zhang, Zengrong ^b   Liu, Guojun ^b   Branda, Neil R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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EID: 0001347056     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol006040p     Document Type: Article

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