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Christian Isalomboto Nkanga, Alain Murhimalika Bapolisi, Nnamdi Ikemefuna Okafor and Rui Werner Maçedo Krause\* Department of Chemistry, Centre for Chemico- and Bio-Medicinal Research (CCBR), Rhodes University, South Africa

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