strategy toward the kinetic resolution of similar chiral compounds are currently under active
investigation.
This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
(grant numbers 21402188, 21402189 and 21322208).
Supplementary data. Supplementary data (experimental procedure, optimization of reaction
conditions and characterisation data of all products listed in the tables) associated with this article are
provided as a separate file and can be found in online version
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