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efficient. In view of its generality and excellent functional group
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ASSOCIATED CONTENT
Supporting Information
Full experimental details, characterizations of new compounds,
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copies of H, 13C and 19F NMR spectra (PDF), and X-ray crystal
structure of 6 (CIF). The material is available free of charge on
the ACS Publications website.
AUTHOR INFORMATION
Corresponding Author
* E-mail: clig@mail.sioc.ac.cn
Notes
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This project was supported by the National Basic Research Pro-
gram of China (973 Program) (Grant 2015CB931900), by the
NSFC (Grants 21421002, 21472220, 21532008, and 21602239),
and by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences (Grant XDB20020000). We thank Prof.
Jiabi Chen of SIOC for single crystal growth.
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