Organic Letters
Letter
Author Contributions
Scheme 5. Possible Mechanistic Pathways
§A.K.S. and S.K. contributed equally.
Notes
The authors declare no competing financial interest.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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We are grateful to the Director CSIR-IHBT for providing
necessary facilities during the course of the work. We thank Dr.
G. Saini and AIRF, JNU-New Delhi, India, for the TEM;
Biotechnology Division, CSIR-IHBT, for SEM and EDS analysis;
and SAIF, PU-Chandigarh, for XRD analysis. We thank CSIR,
New Delhi, for financial support as part of XII Five Year Plan
programme under the title ORIGIN (CSC-0108). A.K.S., S.K.,
C.B.R., S.D., and V.T. thank CSIR and UGC, New Delhi, for
awarding fellowships.
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