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Notes
The authors declare no competing financial interest.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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D.I.B. thanks the Russian Foundation of Basic Research (Grant
No. 18-33-01100) for partial support of this work. The NMR
and XRD equipment used in this research were purchased
under the Moscow State University Program of Development.
Thermo Fisher Scientific, MS Analytica (Moscow, Russia), and
Professor A. Makarov are acknowledged for providing the MS
equipment. We thank Dr. N. Lukonina (MSU) for XRD data
analysis.
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