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Acknowledgements
We thank the SFB 749 for financial support. We also thank
Albemarle for the generous gift of chemicals. J. S. thanks the
FCI-foundation for a fellowship.
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Keywords: allylic substitutions • copper • lithium • pheromone •
zinc
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