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Contact Details

Organization: Chemistry
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND READER
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Homepage: http://www.chemistry.unimelb.edu.au/people/abrahams.php
Work: 8344 0341
Fax: 93475180
Room: 183
Level: 01
Building: Chemistry - Old
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Crystallography, Supramolecular chemistry, crystal engineering Crystallography, Supramolecular chemistry, crystal engineering Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
China Nanjing University Research
China Soochow University Research
China Guangxi Normal University Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science University of Melbourne
Graduate Diploma in Education University of Melbourne
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member RACI Member 01-Jan-2003
Member SCANZ Member 01-Jan-1992

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) Selby Foundation Selby Research Award 01-Jan-2004

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Coordination networks based on carbonate and related ions Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
Contributions to the foundations upon which true crystal engineering of functional solids will be based. Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005
"Coordination Polymers and Oligomers and Labyrinthine Molecular Solids as Materials for the Sorption of Gases/Vapours, with Emphasis on Hydrogen" Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
X-ray Molecular Structure Elucidation Facility (MSEF) Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) 01/01/2007
Enhanced Capacity in Ultra-Trace Level Detection and Speciation of Compounds of Environmental, Biological and Materials Science Interest Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) 01/01/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • New family of ferric spin clusters incorporating redox-active ortho-dioxolene ligands
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 48
    Page numbers: 7765-7781
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • A Mixed-Valence, Hexadecamolybdenum Cluster With an MoVI Cubane ?Jewel? in a ?Setting? of Five MolybdateVI-Linked Dinuclear MoV Units
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Chemistry - A European Journal
    Volume: 14
    Page numbers: 2805-2810
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  • A neutral chiral diamond-like 3D zinc(II) coordination network with sulfasalazine
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Molecular Structure
    Volume: 882
    Issue: 1-3
    Page numbers: 134-139
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  • A new approach to TCNQ-based coordination polymers via TCNQH2
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Crystal Growth & Design
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1123-1125
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  • Construction of Symmetric and Asymmetric Mo/S/Cu Clusters from a Cluster Precursor [Et4N]2[(edt)2Mo2S2(mu -S)2] (edt = Ethanedithiolate)
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 22
    Page numbers: 10461-10468
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  • Coordination polymers constructed by linking metal ions with azodibenzoate anions
    Year: 2008
    Journal: CrystEngComm
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 217-231
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  • Cu(SO3)47- : A Readily Accessible Building Block for New Coordination Polymers
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Crystal Growth & Design
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1288-1293
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  • Facile assembly of hybrid materials containing polyoxometalate cluster anions and organic dye cations: crystal structures and initial spectral characterization
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Chemical Communications
    Volume: 2008
    Page numbers: 576-578
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  • Stepwise guest exchange in a cluster-supported three-dimensional host
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Crystal Growth & Design
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 399-401
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  • Structural Influence of Cations on the Topology of Ferrocenemonosulfonate Salts
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Crystal Growth & Design
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 3193-3199
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  • Trianionic Organoborate Triangles
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 21
    Page numbers: 9797-9803
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Incorporation of a tripodal ligand with a (N,O,O)-donor set into a new family of nickel and cobalt spin clusters


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Polyhedron
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 369-377
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  • A Pillared Discrete Bilayer Formed from Guanidinium and Ferrocenedisulfonate Ions: Synthesis, Crystal Structure and Initial Electrochemical Properties
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 22
    Page numbers: 9027-9029
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  • An Extensive Class of Solids Full of Holes Large Enough To Enclose over 200 Molecules of H2O 
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
    Volume: 46
    Page numbers: 8640-8643
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  • Ferrocene Mono- and Di-Sulfonates as Building Blocks in Hydrogen-Bonded Networks
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Journal of Chemistry
    Volume: 60
    Page numbers: 578-582
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  • Metal Exchange within a Body-Centred Cubic Hydrogen-Bonded Network 
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Journal of Chemistry
    Volume: 60
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 68-71
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  • N2(R*COO)4(H2O)(4,4' -bipy)2--a robust homochiral quartz-like network with large chiral channels.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: CrystEngComm
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 27-29
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  • Synthesis and Voltammetry of [bmim]4[a-S2W18O62] and Related Compounds: Rapid Precipitation and Dissolution of Reduced Surface Films
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 2530-2540
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  • Synthesis and structural characterisation of a series of cobalt complexes of N-appended anthracenyl cyclam
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Polyhedron
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 1669-1676
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  • Synthesis, structure and luminescent properties of a unique [WS4Cu4]-based supramolecular compound [WS4Cu4(dmpzm)2(dca) ]
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry Communications
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 623-626
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  • Synthesis, structure and magnetic properties of a novel Tb4 spin cluster and synthesis of a Tb chain
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Polyhedron
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 3023-3028
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  • The structure-directing influence of guanidinium cations in the crystal structures of [C(NH2)3][MII(H2O)4(VO3)4].4H2O(M=Mn, Co, Ni)
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Polyhedron
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 300-304
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • The Structure-directing Influence of Hydrogen Bonding in Coordination Polymers
    Year: 2006
    Book: Frontiers in Crystal Engineering
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(Chichester)
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Journal Articles

  • Coordination networks incorporating the in situ generated ligands[OC(CO2)3]4- and [OCH(CO2)2]3-
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Molecular Structure
    Volume: 796
    Page numbers: 2-8
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  • In Situ Synthesis of Trisubstituted Methanol Ligands and Their Potential as One-Pot Generators of Cubane-like Metal Complexes
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Chemistry - A European Journal
    Volume: 12
    Page numbers: 7095-7102
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  • Mixed-Valent Cobalt Spin Clusters: a Hexanuclear Complex and a One-Dimensional Coordination Polymer Comprised of Alternating Hepta and Mononuclear Fragments
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 45
    Page numbers: 8950-8957
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  • Syntheses and structural studies of platinum(II) complexes of
    O-methylselenomethionine and related ligands
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Inorganica Chimica Acta
    Volume: 359
    Page numbers: 3252-3256
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  • Tetranionic organoborate squares glued together by cations to generate nanotubular stacks.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 806-810
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  • Tuning the gas phase redox properties of copper(II) ternary complexes of terpyridines to control the formation of nucleobase radical cations
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Dalton Transactions
    Volume: -
    Page numbers: 5051-5061
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Acetic Acid induced self-assembly of supramolecular compounds [Et4N]3[(WS4Cu2)2(u-CN)3]*2MeCN and [PPh4][WS4Cu3(u-CN)2]*MeCN from preformed clusters [A]2[WS4(CuCN)2] (A=Et4N, PPh4)
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 3664-3668
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • An unexpected network in guanidinium rhodizonate
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Crystal Engineering Communications
    Volume: 7
    Page numbers: 629-632
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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  • Guanidinium ion as a symmetrical template in the formation of cubic hydrogen-bonded borate networks with the boracite topology
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society
    Volume: 127
    Page numbers: 816-817
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  • Hydrogen-bonded networks from novel platinum(II) dimers
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Crystal Engineering Communications
    Volume: 7
    Page numbers: 701-705
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Cubic, hydrogen-bonded (10,3)-a networks in the family [C(NH2)3][N(CH3)4][XO4] (X = S, Cr, and Mo)
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 45
    Page numbers: 6157-6160
    Publisher: Wiley-VCH(Berlin)
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  • Highly symmetric networks derived from cubane-relaed octametallic complexes of a new oxyanion of carbon, C4O74-, each molecule attached to eight neighbors by equivalent hydrogen bonds
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society
    Volume: 126
    Issue: 28
    Page numbers: 8624-8625
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Noncentrosymmetric organic solids with very strong harmonic generation response
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Chemistry - A European Journal
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 2386-2390
    Publisher: Wiley-VCH(Weinheim)
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  • Serendipity and design in the generation of new coordination polymers: An extensive series of highly symmetrical guanidinium-templated, carbonate-based networks with the sodalite topology
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society
    Volume: 126
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 2894-2904
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Synthesis of novel chiral and acentric coordination polymers by the reaction of zinc or cadmium salts with racemic 3-pyridyl-3-aminopropionic acid
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Chemistry - A European Journal
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 53-60
    Publisher: Wiley-VCH(Weinheim)
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  • [Co(NH3)6]3[Cu4(OH)(CO3)8].2H2O - a new carbonato-copper(II) anion stabilized by extensive hydrogen bonding
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Chemical Communications
    Volume: 8
    Page numbers: 938-939
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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  • {[WS4Cu4(4,4'-bpy)4][WS4Cu4I4(4,4'-bpy)2]} - An unusual 3D porous coordination polymer formed from the preformed cluster [Et4N]4[WS4Cu4I6]
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 36
    Page numbers: 4741-4745
    Publisher: Wiley-VCH(Berlin)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • AgC(CN)3-based coordination polymers
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 2654-2664
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Assembly of a supramolecular cube, [(Cp*WS3Cu3)8CI8(CN)12Li4] from a preformed incomplete cubane-like compound [PPh4][Cp*WS3(CuCN)3]
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society
    Volume: 125
    Page numbers: 12682-12683
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Channel-containing lanthanide mucate structures
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Crystal Engineering Communications
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 55
    Page numbers: 313-317
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  • Ferroelectric copper quinine complexes
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Chemistry of Materials
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 4166-4168
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington)
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  • Homochiral Zn and Cd coordination polymers containing amino acid-tetrazole ligands
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 24
    Page numbers: 7710-7712
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • New tricks for an old dog: The carbonate ion as a building block for networks including examples of composition [Cu6(CO3)12-{C(NH2)3}8]4- with the sodalite topology
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 1112-1115
    Publisher: Wiley-VCH(Berlin)
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  • The first highly stable homochiral olefin-copper(I) 2D coordination polymer grid based on quinine as a building block
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Organometallics
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 2814-2816
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington)
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  • Zinc saccharate: A robust, 3D coordination network with two types of isolated, parallel channels, one hydrophilic and the other hydrophobic
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
    Volume: 42
    Page numbers: 1848-1851
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • A cluster rearrangement of an open cubane (Cu4Br4) to a prismane (Cu6Br6) in a copper(I)-olefin network
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 16
    Page numbers: 2944-2946
    Publisher: Wiley-VCH(Berlin)
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  • Alpha-polonium coordination networks constructed from bis(imidazole) ligands
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Crystal Engineering Communications
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 79
    Page numbers: 478-482
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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  • An unexpected zinc coordination polymer formed during the preparation of 5-substituted 1H-tetrazoles from a nitrile in water
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian Journal of Chemistry
    Volume: 55
    Page numbers: 495-497
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Collingwood)
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  • Dihydroxybenzoquinone and chloranilic acid derivatives of rare earth metals
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of the Chemical Society - Dalton Transactions
    Volume: 2002
    Page numbers: 1586-1594
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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  • Hydrothermal preparation of novel Cd(II) coordination polymers employing 5-(4-pyridyl)tetrazolate as a bridging ligand
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 25
    Page numbers: 6544-6546
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Novel, acentric metal-organic coordination polymers from hydrothermal reactions involving in situ ligand synthesis
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 20
    Page numbers: 3800-3803
    Publisher: Wiley-VCH(Berlin)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • A Cu(I) coordination polymer employing a nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitor letrozole as a building block
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of the Chemical Society - Dalton Transactions
    Volume: 2001
    Page numbers: 2071-2073
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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  • A reexamination of the structure of "Honeycomb Cadmium Cyanide"
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Solid State Chemistry
    Volume: 156
    Page numbers: 51-56
    Publisher: Academic Press(California)
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  • An unprecedented six-fold anion-type chiral diamondoid-like eight-coordinate Cd(II) coordination polymer with a second-order nonlinear optical effect
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of the Chemical Society - Dalton Transactions
    Volume: 2001
    Issue: 17
    Page numbers: 2453-2455
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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  • Coordination polymers of bipyridyldicarboxylates - a cobalt containing 12,3-net with potential reactive sites
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Zeitschrift fur anorganische und allgemeine chemie
    Volume: 627
    Page numbers: 1711-1713
    Publisher: Wiley-VCH(Berlin)
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  • Enantioseparation of racemic organic molecules by a zeolite analogue
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
    Volume: 40
    Issue: 23
    Page numbers: 4422-4425
    Publisher: Wiley-VCH(Berlin)
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  • The first four-fold interpenetrating diamondoid framework that traps gaseous molecules: {Zn[trans-3-(4-pyridyl)acrylate]2.(trans-2-butene)}n
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of the Chemical Society - Dalton Transactions
    Volume: 2001
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 1806-1808
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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