Organic Letters
Letter
by the Sloan Scholars Mentoring Network of the Social
Science Research Council with funds provided by the Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation. Z.M.S. is thankful to the New Jersey Space
Grant Consortium (NJSGC) and NASA for support. We
would like to thank Prof. Cosimo Antonacci (SHU) for
assistance with IR and UV−vis spectroscopy and Dr. Reverend
Gerald Buonopane (SHU) for access to his group’s
spectrophotometer. Thank you to Dr. Jeffery Lipshultz
(MIT) and Prof. Wyatt Murphy (SHU) for helpful discussions.
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