Gold catalysis

Gold: Science and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 89-122

  Carabineiro, Sónia Alexandra Correia ^a   Thompson, David Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b NONE

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