Separation and Identification of Stereoisomers of Isomerized α-Acid Derivatives by HPLC/DAD and Electrospray HPLC/MSFootnote¹

1 This work was presented as a poster at the 2005 ASBC Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA.

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