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5. Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to the Dr. Meeta Jamal, Princi-
pal Dayanand Girls College, Kanpur, India for providing
necessary facilities, Dr. A. Varshney is thankful to
U.G.C. New Delhi for sanctioning the project entitled
“Polymerization of vinyl monomers using ylide and
metal ylide complexes as new radical initiators
(F.12-5/2004 (SR)).
One of the author (K.P.) is thankful to the Under Sec-
retary, Uttar Pradesh Shasan, India for sanctioning the
study leave to conduct this research.
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