The behaviour of qinghaosu (artemisinin) in the presence of non-heme iron(II) and (III)

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 257-260

  Haynes, Richard K ^a   Vonwiller, Simone C ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ;

ARTICLE; DRUG DEGRADATION;

EID: 0030033323     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-4039(95)02142-6     Document Type: Article

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