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Reactivity of π-equivalent medium-ring nitrogen heterocycles. Azocines and homoazocines

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Translation published in Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 147–157, February, 1978.

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Paquette, L.A. Reactivity of π-equivalent medium-ring nitrogen heterocycles. Azocines and homoazocines. Chem Heterocycl Compd 14, 111–119 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00945319

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