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Acknowledgements
The authors thank the National Research Foundation of Korea
(NRF-2012M3A7B4049653, NRF-2014-011165 and NRF-
2017R1A2B4010888) for generous financial support.
Keywords: asymmetric gold catalysis • intermolecular alkyne
activation • α,β-unsaturated δ-lactones • SDS • entropy control
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