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Project no. ALI389/90), and to the Spanish Ministerio de
CONCLUSIONS
Educación y Ciencia for financial assistance to R. G. during
his Ph.D. studies.
The above results on the nitrosation kinetics of six
cyclic and acyclic amino acids with their —COOH
and amino groups in different relative positions and
electronic environments allow the following conclu-
sions.
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