Organic Letters
Letter
X-ray crystallographic data for 2c (CIF)
X-ray crystallographic data for 2i (CIF)
Scheme 6. Plausible Mechanism
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Notes
The authors declare no competing financial interest.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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We gratefully acknowledge the Natural Science Foundation of
China (21372174, 21542015), PAPD, and Soochow University
for financial support and the State and Local Joint Engineering
Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials.
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