10.1002/anie.201910276
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
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Scheme 2. Mechanistic studies.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank the Royal Society (URF to J.F.B. and a K. C. Wong
Fellowship to G.-W.W.), EPSRC and GSK (studentship to O.B.),
the European Research Council (grant no. 639594 CatHet), the
Leverhulme Trust (Philip Leverhulme Prize to J.F.B.) and the
School of Chemistry X-ray Crystallographic Service.
Keywords: rhodium, cyclopropane, C-C activation, azocane
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