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AUTHOR INFORMATION
Corresponding Author
*E-mail: liuxh@scu.edu.cn.
*E-mail: xmfeng@scu.edu.cn.
ORDID
Xiaohua Liu: 0000-0001-9555-0555
Xiaoming Feng: 0000-0003-4507-0478
Lili Lin: 0000-0001-8723-6793
Notes
The authors declare no competing financial interest.
ASSOCIATED CONTENT
Supporting Information
Experimental details and analytic data (NMR, HPLC, EPR).
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We appreciate the National Natural Science Foundation of
China (21432006, 21625205, 21321061), and National Program
for Support of Top-notch Young Professionals for financial
support.
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