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The authors declare no competing financial interest.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Frontier Scientific (allylB(pin)) and BASF (pinacolborane) are
acknowledged for generous donations of reagents. We thank
Dr. Bo Li and Hilan Kaplan for assistance with X-ray analysis,
Drs. John Boylan and Thusitha Jayasundera for assistance with
NMR, and Dr. Fredrik Haeffner for helpful discussions. The
NIH (Grant GM-64451) is acknowledged for financial support.
M.J.A. acknowledges support in the form of fellowships from
the American Chemical Society (DOC) and AstraZeneca.
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