Syntheses of 1-phenylalanine derivatives containing a sulfur substituent at the 2-position

Heterocycles

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 219-228

  Ohba, Masashi ^a   Imasho, Masaaki ^a   Fujii, Tozo ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 0001370572     PISSN: 03855414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3987/com-94-s7-1     Document Type: Article

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