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Pal D, Chakraborty S. An Exploration of the Hydrogen Bond Donor Ability of Ammonia. Chemphyschem 2023; 24:e202300382. [PMID: 37523179 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202300382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2023] [Revised: 07/31/2023] [Accepted: 07/31/2023] [Indexed: 08/01/2023]
Abstract
Ammonia is an important molecule due to its wide use in the fertiliser industry. It is also used in aminolysis reactions. Theoretical studies of the reaction mechanism predict that in reactive complexes and transition states, ammonia acts as a hydrogen bond donor forming N-H⋅⋅⋅O hydrogen bond. Experimental reports of N-H⋅⋅⋅O hydrogen bond, where ammonia acts as a hydrogen bond donor are scarce. Herein, the hydrogen bond donor ability of ammonia is investigated with three chalcogen atoms i. e. O, S, and Se using matrix isolation infrared spectroscopy and electronic structure calculations. In addition, the chalcogen bond acceptor ability of ammonia has also been investigated. The hydrogen bond acceptor molecules used here are O(CH3 )2 , S(CH3 )2 , and Se(CH3 )2 . The formation of the 1 : 1 complex has been monitored in the N-H symmetric and anti-symmetric stretching modes of ammonia. The nature of the complex has been delineated using Atoms in Molecules analysis, Natural Bond Orbital analysis, and Energy Decomposition Analysis. This work presents the first comparison of the hydrogen bond donor ability of ammonia with O, S, and Se.
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- Dhritabrata Pal
- Department of Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Pilani campus, Vidya Vihar, Rajasthan, 333-031, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Pilani campus, Vidya Vihar, Rajasthan, 333-031, India
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Electronic Circular Dichroism‐Circularly Polarized Raman (eCP‐Raman): A New Form of Chiral Raman Spectroscopy. Chemistry 2022; 28:e202104302. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.202104302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Fischer TLL, Bödecker MADI, Zehnacker A, Mata RA, Suhm MA. Setting up the HyDRA blind challenge for the microhydration of organic molecules. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:11442-11454. [DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01119k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The procedure leading to the first HyDRA blind challenge for the prediction of water donor stretching vibrations in monohydrates of organic molecules is described. A training set of 10 monohydrates...
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Yang Y, Cheramy J, Xu Y. Matrix Isolation-Vibrational Circular Dichroism Spectroscopic Study of Conformations and Non-Covalent Interactions of Tetrahydro-2-Furoic Acid. Chemphyschem 2021; 22:1336-1343. [PMID: 33945674 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202100256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2021] [Revised: 05/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The conformational landscape and aggregation behaviour of tetrahydro-2-furoic acid (THFA) were investigated by using matrix isolation-vibrational circular dichroism (MI-VCD). The well-resolved experimental MI-IR and MI-VCD features in an argon matrix at 10 K allow one to identify two dominant monomeric conformations as trans-THFA where the hydroxyl and carbonyl groups of COOH are at opposite sides, as well as one cis-conformer. At 24 K and 30 K deposition temperatures, the experimental IR and VCD spectral features reveal further growth of the binary THFA aggregates. Systematic conformational searches identified three vastly different binary binding topologies, resulting in a few hundred stable (THFA)2 conformers. Interestingly, the main binary structures observed correspond to an unusual type of structure which is made of two trans-THFA subunits, in contrast to the usual double H-bonded ring binary structures, identified in a previous solution study. The present work showcases the power of MI-VCD spectroscopy in revealing unusual structures formed in a cold rare gas matrix.
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- Yanqing Yang
- Chemistry Department, University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2G2
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- Chemistry Department, University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2G2
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- Chemistry Department, University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2G2
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Giovannini T, Egidi F, Cappelli C. Theory and algorithms for chiroptical properties and spectroscopies of aqueous systems. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:22864-22879. [PMID: 33043930 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp04027d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Chiroptical properties and spectroscopies are valuable tools to study chiral molecules and assign absolute configurations. The spectra that result from chiroptical measurements may be very rich and complex, and hide much of their information content. For this reason, the interplay between experiments and calculations is especially useful, provided that all relevant physico-chemical interactions that are present in the experimental sample are accurately modelled. The inherent difficulty associated to the calculation of chiral signals of systems in aqueous solutions requires the development of specific tools, able to account for the peculiarities of water-solute interactions, and especially its ability to form hydrogen bonds. In this perspective we discuss a multiscale approach, which we have developed and challenged to model the most used chiroptical techniques.
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- Tommaso Giovannini
- Department of Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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Merten C. Recent Advances in the Application of Vibrational Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy for the Characterization of Asymmetric Catalysts. European J Org Chem 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.202000876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Christian Merten
- Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie Organische Chemie II Ruhr Universität Bochum Universitätsstraße 150 44801 Bochum Germany
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Gerbig D, Desch S, Schreiner PR. Making Glycine Methyl Ester Chiral. Chemistry 2018; 24:11904-11907. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201802119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2018] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Dennis Gerbig
- Institute of Organic ChemistryJustus-Liebig University Heinrich-Buff-Ring 17 35392 Giessen Germany
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- Institute of Organic ChemistryJustus-Liebig University Heinrich-Buff-Ring 17 35392 Giessen Germany
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- Institute of Organic ChemistryJustus-Liebig University Heinrich-Buff-Ring 17 35392 Giessen Germany
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Perera AS, Cheramy J, Merten C, Thomas J, Xu Y. IR, Raman, and Vibrational Optical Activity Spectra of Methyl Glycidate in Chloroform and Water: The Clusters-in-a-liquid
Solvation Model. Chemphyschem 2018; 19:2234-2242. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201800309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Department of Chemistry; University of Alberta; Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2G2
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- Ruhr-University Bochum; Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry; 44801 Bochum Germany
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- Department of Chemical and Material Engineering; University of Alberta; Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 1H
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- Department of Chemistry; University of Alberta; Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2G2
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Pollok CH, Zhang Q, Tiefenbacher K, Merten C. Chirality Induction from a Chiral Guest to the Hydrogen-Bonding Network of Its Hexameric Resorcinarene Host Capsule. Chemphyschem 2017; 18:1987-1991. [PMID: 28577348 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201700610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The hexameric capsule of resorcin[4]arene 1 is capable of encapsulating tertiary amines, which has recently been used in the application of [(1)6 (H2 O)8 ] as (co-)catalyst in various asymmetric reactions. However, not much is known about the highly asymmetric but conformationally very dynamic structure of the capsule after uptake of chiral molecules. Therefore, in this contribution, we utilize electronic circular dichroism and vibrational circular dichroism spectroscopy to investigate how several chiral guest molecules affect the structural preferences of the capsule [(1)6 (H2 O)8 ]. In particular, we show that one small chiral amine encapsulated in [(1)6 (H2 O)8 ] is sufficient to control and dictate the stereochemical preferences of the entire capsule. Furthermore, neither strong π-π interactions nor a significant steric bulk are required for this induction. The observation of such a chiral imprint of the guest's stereochemistry onto its host molecule is expected to have implications also for other supramolecular capsules.
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- Corina H Pollok
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie, Organische Chemie 2, Universitätsstraße 150, 44801, Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, St. Johanns-Ring 19, CH-4056, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, St. Johanns-Ring 19, CH-4056, Basel, Switzerland.,Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Mattenstrasse 26, CH-4058, Basel, Switzerland
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- Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie, Organische Chemie 2, Universitätsstraße 150, 44801, Bochum, Germany
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Pollok CH, Riesebeck T, Merten C. Photoisomerisierung eines Schalters auf Basis eines chiralen Imins: Verfolgung durch Matrixisolations-VCD-Spektroskopie. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201610918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Corina H. Pollok
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie, Organische Chemie 2; Universitätsstraße 150 44801 Bochum Deutschland
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- Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie, Organische Chemie 2; Universitätsstraße 150 44801 Bochum Deutschland
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- Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie, Organische Chemie 2; Universitätsstraße 150 44801 Bochum Deutschland
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Pollok CH, Riesebeck T, Merten C. Photoisomerization of a Chiral Imine Molecular Switch Followed by Matrix-Isolation VCD Spectroscopy. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017; 56:1925-1928. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201610918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2016] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Corina H. Pollok
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie, Organische Chemie 2; Universitätsstrasse 150 44801 Bochum Germany
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- Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie, Organische Chemie 2; Universitätsstrasse 150 44801 Bochum Germany
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- Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie, Organische Chemie 2; Universitätsstrasse 150 44801 Bochum Germany
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Kreienborg NM, Pollok CH, Merten C. Towards an Observation of Active Conformations in Asymmetric Catalysis: Interaction-Induced Conformational Preferences of a Chiral Thiourea Model Compound. Chemistry 2016; 22:12455-63. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201602097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Nora M. Kreienborg
- Organische Chemie 2; Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Universitätsstraße 150 44801 Bochum Germany
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- Organische Chemie 2; Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Universitätsstraße 150 44801 Bochum Germany
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- Organische Chemie 2; Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Universitätsstraße 150 44801 Bochum Germany
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Perera AS, Thomas J, Poopari MR, Xu Y. The Clusters-in-a-Liquid Approach for Solvation: New Insights from the Conformer Specific Gas Phase Spectroscopy and Vibrational Optical Activity Spectroscopy. Front Chem 2016; 4:9. [PMID: 26942177 PMCID: PMC4766311 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2016.00009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2015] [Accepted: 02/08/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Vibrational optical activity spectroscopies, namely vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) and Raman optical activity (ROA), have been emerged in the past decade as powerful spectroscopic tools for stereochemical information of a wide range of chiral compounds in solution directly. More recently, their applications in unveiling solvent effects, especially those associated with water solvent, have been explored. In this review article, we first select a few examples to demonstrate the unique sensitivity of VCD spectral signatures to both bulk solvent effects and explicit hydrogen-bonding interactions in solution. Second, we discuss the induced solvent chirality, or chiral transfer, VCD spectral features observed in the water bending band region in detail. From these chirality transfer spectral data, the related conformer specific gas phase spectroscopic studies of small chiral hydration clusters, and the associated matrix isolation VCD experiments of hydrogen-bonded complexes in cold rare gas matrices, a general picture of solvation in aqueous solution emerges. In such an aqueous solution, some small chiral hydration clusters, rather than the chiral solutes themselves, are the dominant species and are the ones that contribute mainly to the experimentally observed VCD features. We then review a series of VCD studies of amino acids and their derivatives in aqueous solution under different pHs to emphasize the importance of the inclusion of the bulk solvent effects. These experimental data and the associated theoretical analyses are the foundation for the proposed "clusters-in-a-liquid" approach to account for solvent effects effectively. We present several approaches to identify and build such representative chiral hydration clusters. Recent studies which applied molecular dynamics simulations and the subsequent snapshot averaging approach to generate the ROA, VCD, electronic CD, and optical rotatory dispersion spectra are also reviewed. Challenges associated with the molecular dynamics snapshot approach are discussed and the successes of the seemingly random "ad hoc explicit solvation" reported before are also explained. To further test and improve the "clusters-in-a-liquid" model in practice, future work in terms of conformer specific gas phase spectroscopy of sequential solvation of a chiral solute, matrix isolation VCD measurements of small chiral hydration clusters, and more sophisticated models for the bulk solvent effects would be highly valuable.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of AlbertaEdmonton, AB, Canada
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Merten C, Pollok CH, Liao S, List B. Stereochemische Kommunikation innerhalb eines chiralen Ionenpaares. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201501271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Merten C, Pollok CH, Liao S, List B. Stereochemical Communication within a Chiral Ion Pair Catalyst. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015; 54:8841-5. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201501271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2015] [Revised: 03/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Merten C, Berger CJ, McDonald R, Xu Y. Evidence of Dihydrogen Bonding of a Chiral Amine-Borane Complex in Solution by VCD Spectroscopy. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2014; 53:9940-3. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201403690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2014] [Revised: 05/15/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Merten C, Berger CJ, McDonald R, Xu Y. Nachweis von Diwasserstoffbrücken in einem chiralen Amin-Boran-Komplex in Lösung mittels VCD-Spektroskopie. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2014. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201403690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Dezhahang Z, Poopari MR, Hernández FE, Diaz C, Xu Y. Diastereomeric preference of a triply axial chiral binaphthyl based molecule: a concentration dependent study by chiroptical spectroscopies. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:12959-67. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cp01704h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Thomas J, Sukhorukov O, Jäger W, Xu Y. Chirped-Pulse and Cavity-Based Fourier Transform Microwave Spectra of the Methyl Lactate⋅⋅⋅Ammonia Adduct. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201300707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Thomas J, Sukhorukov O, Jäger W, Xu Y. Chirped-Pulse and Cavity-Based Fourier Transform Microwave Spectra of the Methyl Lactate⋅⋅⋅Ammonia Adduct. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2013; 52:4402-5. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201300707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2013] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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