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Antibacterial low molecular weight cationic polymers: dissecting the contribution of hydrophobicity, chain length and charge to activity

James L. Grace, Johnny X. Huang, Soon-Ee Cheah, Nghia P. Truong, Matthew A. Cooper, Jian Li, Thomas P. Davis, John F. Quinn, Tony Velkov, Michael R. Whittaker

RSC Advances · 2016 · 73 citations · 39 references

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We report the antibacterial activity of a novel class of low molecular weight cationic polymers synthesised using Cu(0) mediated polymerisation.

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Five-Coordinated High-Spin Complexes of Bivalent Cobalt, Nickel, andCopper with Tris(2-dimethylaminoethyl)amine

Mario Ciampolini, N. NARDI · Inorganic Chemistry · 1966 · 799 citations

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