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2. Williams, N.H. and Wyman, P. Base catalysed phosphate diester hydrolysis. Chem. Comm. 14 (2001) 1268-1269.
3. Williams, N.H., Lebuis A-M. and Chin, J. A structural and functional model of dinuclear metallophosphatases. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 121 (1999) 3341-3348.
4. Humphry, T., Forconi, M., Williams N.H. and Hengge A.C. An altered mechanism of hydrolysis for a metal-complexed phosphate diester. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124 (2002) 14860-14861.
5. Williams, N.H. Magnesium (II) catalysed ATP hydrolysis of ATP. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 122 (2000) 12023-12024.
6. Forconi, M. and Williams, N.H. Mimicking metallophosphatases: Revealing a role for an OH group with no libido. Angewandte Chemie, Int. Ed. Engl. 41 (2002) 849-852.