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This work was financially supported by the National Nature
Science Foundation of China (21077023), the National Basic
Research Program of China (2014CB239303), the Natural
Science Foundation of Fujian Province of China
(2015J01046), and the Independent Research Project of State
Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environ-
ment (2014B01. We are indebted to Prof. X. Q. Fang and
M.S. Q. Q. Lin for their great help in the isolation of benzo-
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