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Acknowledgements
We thank the “1000-Youth Talents Plan”, a Start-up Grant
(39837110) from Nanjing Tech University and financial support by
SICAM Fellowship by Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation
Center for Advanced Materials.
Keywords: gem-difluoroalkene • palladium • fluorination •
arylation • cross-coupling
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