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Acknowledgment. Financial support from Peking University,
the National Science Foundation of China (20702002, 20872003),
and the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program,
2009CB825300) is greatly appreciated. We thank Riyuan Lin in
this group for reproducing the results for 2h and 2k.
Supporting Information Available: Experimental details and NMR
spectra. This material is available free of charge via the Internet at
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