Photoinduced electron-transfer processes of phthalimides

CRC Handbook of: Organic Photochemistry and Photobiology, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 84-1-84-19

  Oelgemöller, Michael ^a   Griesbeck, Axel G ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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