Organic Letters
Letter
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The authors declare no competing financial interest.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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We thank Oklahoma State University for generous support. Mass
spectrometry analyses were performed in the DNA/Protein
Resource Facility at Oklahoma State University using resources
supported by the NSF MRI and EPSCoR programs (DBI/
0722494).
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