Super radical stabilizers

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 761-771

  Creary, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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EID: 33750608606     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar0680724     Document Type: Article

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