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Acknowledgments
Financial support from MENSER and CNRS as well as a grant to
C.B. from CNRS and SEPPIC is gratefully acknowledged. The authors
also wish to thank Dr. Sébastien Kerverdo, Dr. Hervé Rolland and
Dr. Jérôme Guilbot for their interest in this work and for fruitful
discussions.
directly subjected to silica gel chromatography using
a CH2Cl2/acetone/
Supplementary data
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Supplementary data (characterization data for new compounds
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