Orienting the heterocyclic periphery: a structural model for chloroquine's antimalarial activity.
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The antimalarial drug chloroquine binds to gallium proto-porphyrin-IX in methanol and in the solid state and represents a unique drug-heme model.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Chemical communications
دوره 50 89 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014