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for their financial support. We also thank the Centre of Testing
& Analysis, Sichuan University, for NMR measurements. Some
of the computational results described in this work were
obtained with the help of Prof. Dr. De-Yin Wu at the College
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in Xiamen University.
Scheme 6. Proposed Mechanism
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We thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China
(Nos. 21572137 and 21871187) and the Key Program of
Sichuan Science and Technology Project (No. 2018GZ0312)
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