Organic germanium compounds have been extensively applied in medicine as to
nics. In this paper, the local structures of two organic germanium compound
s, carboxyethylgermanium sesquioxide and polymeric germanium glutamate, wer
e determined by EXAFS. The structure parameters including coordination numb
ers and bond lengths were reported, and possible structure patterns were di
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