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Financial support for the authors’ work was obtained from the
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Dis-
covery Grant to M.S.C.P.), the Canada Research Chairs program,
Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Saskatchewan Government,
and the University of Saskatchewan. P.D.T. acknowledges the
Indian Government for a BOYSCAST fellowship. We thank E.E. Yaya
and D.P.O. Owiti for synthesis of indolyl-3-acetaldoxime, and
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