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Organic Chemistry

Reinvestigation of the Reduction of Di- and Trihydroxyphenylalkanones with Sodium Borohydride in an Aqueous Alkali

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Pages 3087-3089 | Received 07 Jun 1989, Published online: 08 Sep 2014

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