Cover Picture: Discovery of a Class of Diketopiperazines as Antiprion Compounds (ChemMedChem 8/2010)
✍ Scribed by Maria Laura Bolognesi; Hoang Ngoc Ai Tran; Matteo Staderini; Alessandra Monaco; Alberto López-Cobeñas; Salvatore Bongarzone; Xevi Biarnés; Pilar López-Alvarado; Nieves Cabezas; Maria Caramelli; Paolo Carloni; J. Carlos Menéndez; Giuseppe Legname
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 996 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1860-7179
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