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Ziad Moussa1 \*, Zaher M.A. Judeh2 and Saleh A. Ahmed3,4

1 Department of Chemistry, College of Science, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

2 School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

3 Faculty of Applied Science, Department of Chemistry, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

4 Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

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