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All characterization data; 1H and 13C spectra (PDF)
Crystallographic data for 2a (CIF)
Crystallographic data for 4 (CIF)
Crystallographic data for 5 (CIF)
Crystallographic data for 6 (CIF)
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Notes
The authors declare no competing financial interest.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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We thank the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research
Council of Canada (NSERC), the University of Toronto, and
Alphora Inc. for financial support. M.L. thanks the Canada
Council for the Arts for a Killam Fellowship. D.A.P. thanks
NSERC for a postgraduate scholarship (CGS-D). Dr. Alan
Lough (University of Toronto) is thanked for single-crystal X-ray
structural analysis of 2a, 4, 5, and 6.
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