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The work is nancially supported by CSIR, New Delhi,
through the grant CSC0125 and MLP3000/03. The authors
thank the Analytical and Material Science Division of CSIR-
NEIST for recording the NMR spectra and XRD data, respec-
tively. The TEM analysis was carried out in the analytical facility,
North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India.
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Scheme 1 A plausible mechanism for the deoximation using Cu(0).
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