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The authors declare no competing financial interest.
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Financial support by Pierre Fabre and the School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, is gratefully
acknowledged. We thank the EPSRC National Mass Spectrometry Facility, Swansea, for mass
spectrometric data.
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Supporting Information
The supporting information for this paper contains the results of reactions using different rhodium acetate
batches.
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