Integrating carbon-halogen bond formation into medicinal plant metabolism.

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Published in Nature on November 03, 2010

Authors

Weerawat Runguphan1, Xudong Qu, Sarah E O'Connor

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

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