Functionally Diverse Nylon-3 Copolymers from Readily Accessible ?-Lactams.
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SUBMITTER: Zhang J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3551626 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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