Exhaustive fluorine scanning toward potent p53-Mdm2 antagonists.
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SUBMITTER: Huang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3772510 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan
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Exhaustive fluorine scanning toward potent p53-Mdm2 antagonists.
Huang Yijun Y Wolf Siglinde S Koes David D Popowicz Grzegorz M GM Camacho Carlos J CJ Holak Tad A TA Dömling Alexander A
ChemMedChem 20110927 1
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