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novel foldamer-based asymmetric catalysts.
This work was supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI (Grant-
in-Aid for Scientific Research (S), no. 25220804 (E. Y.)) and
MEXT KAKENHI (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative
Areas, Grant Number JP16H01016 in Precisely Designed Catalysts
with Customized Scaffolding (N. O.)). We thank Prof. S. Nagano
and Y. Otsuka (Nagoya University) for their help with XRD
measurements.
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