Poised on the brink between a bistable complex and a compound

Organic Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 557-560

  Jeppesen, Jan Oskar ^a,b   Becher, Jan ^b   Stoddart, J Fraser ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

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EID: 0001681390     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol0171362     Document Type: Article

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