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A New Ester Isolated from Ferula assa-foetida L.

Mohamed H. ABD EL-RAZEKDepartment of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Roosevelt Road Section 4
Pages 2300-2303 | Received 01 Feb 2007, Accepted 21 May 2007, Published online: 22 May 2014

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