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Werner, H. (2009). One Deck More: The Chemical “Big Mac”. In: Landmarks in Organo-Transition Metal Chemistry. Profiles in Inorganic Chemistry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09848-7_6

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