Organic Letters
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Scheme 5. Proposed Catalytic Cycles of the Reaction
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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We gratefully acknowledge the National Natural Science
Foundation of China (21871131) and the Fundamental
Research Funds for the Central Universities (020514380131).
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