Organic Letters
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Fuchs, J.; Fedorov, O.; Siejka, P.; Muller, S.; Knapp, S.; Brenton, J.;
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This work was supported financially by the Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the
University of Toronto and Alphora Research Inc. B.L. thanks
NSERC and the China Scholarship Council for supporting his
stay at the University of Toronto in the course of his doctoral
studies. Dr. Alan Lough (University of Toronto) is thanked for
single-crystal X-ray structural analysis of 3a and 5b. Juntao Ye
and Thomas Johnson are thanked for proofreading the text.
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