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in organic synthesis.
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to the National Natural Science Foun-
dation of China (Project No. 20072033) and Specialized
Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher
Education of China.
9. A typical procedure is as follows:
A solution of
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