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Samia Kausar1 , Ataf Ali Altaf<sup>1</sup> \*, Muhammad Hamayun1 , Amin Badshah2 and Abdul Razzaq3

1 Department of Chemistry, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Pakistan

2 Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

3 Department of Chemistry, Government Postgraduate College, Sahiwal, Pakistan

\*Address all correspondence to: atafali.altaf@uog.edu.pk

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