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Fernández, S.; Assaf, E.; Ahmad, S.; Travis, B.; Curley, J.; Hazari, N.; Ertem, M. Z.; Miller, A. J. M. Room Temperature Formate Ester Transfer Hydrogenation Enables an Electrochemical-Thermal Organometallic Cascade for Methanol Synthesis from CO2. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, In press. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202416061

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Hart, M.; Idanwekhai, K.; Alves, V. M.; Miller, A. J. M.; Dempsey, J. L.; Cahoon, J. F.; Chen, C-H.; Winkler, D. A.; Muratov, E. N.; Tropsha, A. Trust Not Verify? The Critical Need for Data Curation Standards in Materials Informatics, Chem. Mater., 2024, 36 (19), 9046-9055. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c00981

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