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Financial support from the National Basic Research Program
of China (2009CB825300) and National Natural Science
Foundation of China (21172192) is greatly appreciated.
Shengming Ma is a Qiu Shi Adjunct Professor at Zhejiang
University. We thank Wu Fang in our group for reproducing
the results of 2b and 2l in Table 2 and 2p in Scheme 3.
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