Photoinduced electron transfer chemistry of 9-methylanthracene. Substrate as both electron donor and acceptor in the presence of the 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium ion

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Volumn 118, Issue 21, 1996, Pages

  Lee, Carlos ^a   Winston, Timothy ^a   Unni, Additya ^a   Pagni, Richard M ^a   Mamantov, Gleb ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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