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ASSOCIATED CONTENT
Supporting Information
This material is available free of charge via the Internet at
Experimental procedures, Burés graphical analysis, same excess
experiments, NMR studies and Computational studies (DFT)
AUTHOR INFORMATION
Corresponding Authors
E-mails: hans.adolfsson@umu.se, fahmi.himo@su.se
Author Contributions
‡These authors contributed equally.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The authors gratefully acknowledge Professor Donna G. Blackmond
for valuable comments and suggestions on the experimental section,
and The K. A. Wallenberg Foundation and the Swedish Research
Council for financial support.
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