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In contrast, the corresponding coupling product generated
from fluorene-2-carboxaldehyde was obtained in only 71%
Acknowledgements
We are grateful for financial support from NSFC (Grant Nos.
21671122, 21475078, 21301109), Taishan scholar’s
construction project and Shandong Provincial Natural Science
Foundation (No. ZR2018MB005).
yield with the aid of
reaction conditions (Fig. S16, ESI†), which further highlighted
the homogeneous catalysis merit of
2 in a heterogeneous way under the same
1.
For understanding the mechanism of this novel Cu-cage
promoted A3-reaction, we performed the ESI-MS
measurement on the model reaction system. As shown in the
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3 and 4
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