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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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This work was generously supported by Purdue University. We
thank Dr. Phillip Fanwick and Ian Powers for assistance with X-
ray crystallography, Dr. John Harwood for assistance with NMR
spectroscopy, and Ravikiran Yerabolu for the collection of mass
spectrometry data.
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