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We thank the EPSRC and Lilly Industries for a CASE
studentship (SRM), and the EPSRC for a maintenance award
(MB). The middle stages of this work (MR) were also supported
by a research grant (RG/M17013) from the EPSRC, for which
we are grateful. We thank Dr Duckhee Lee for the experiment
with the Weinreb amide.
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