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The potentiometric titration curves and computer modelling studies indicated that aluminium complexes with alanine at-C00− moiety and also altered the proton affinity at+NH3 and-CH3 moiety.27Al NMR spectra broadening also confirmed the interaction.
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Jagannatha Rao, K.S., Rao, G.V. The characterization of aluminium — alanine complex. Mol Cell Biochem 137, 61–64 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00926040
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