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2. We thank the EPSRC UK National Crystallography Ser-
vice at the University of Southampton for the collection of
the crystallographic data for compounds 2a, 7a and 16a.[42]
on improving the catalytic behaviour of 2 and its ap-
plication towards other chemical transformations.
Experimental Section
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Acknowledgements
Financial support by the A.U.TH Research Committee (KA
89309) is kindly acknowledged. I.N.L. and M.K. acknowl-
edge the sponsorship of the Short Term Scientific Mission
from COST action CM1201.We thank Dr. Nikolaos Tsoureas
(University of Sussex) for preliminary CV data of compound
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