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THE JOURNAL OF O r g a n i c

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Chemistry

F R E D E R I C K D. G R E E N E

Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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SENIOR EDITORS W E R N E R HERZ Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida

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