Exploring electronically polarized pentacenes

Organic Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 4163-4166

  Lehnherr, Dan ^a   McDonald, Robert ^a   Tykwinski, Rik R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 55049139067     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol801464k     Document Type: Article

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