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The authors declare no competing financial interest.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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This work was supported by the Australian Research Council.
We are indebted to Prof. Guy Bertrand (Toulouse and
Riverside) and Dr. David Kvaskoff (Queensland) for many
stimulating discussions on nitrile imines and computational
chemistry, respectively.
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