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In view of the results mentioned above and literature
reports,11,15 a possible reaction mechanism is proposed in
Scheme 6. Originally, the DPDME/O2 system is prone to form
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The authors declare no competing financial interest.
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We are grateful to the National Natural Science Foundation of
China (Grant Nos. 21572195 and 21702175), the 1000 Youth
Talents Plan, the Tianshan Cedar Project of Xinjiang Uygur
Autonomous Region (2017XS16), the Scientific and Techno-
logical Innovation Leading Talent Reserve of Xinjiang Uygur
Autonomous Region (wr2016cx0145), and the Natural Science
Foundation of Xinjiang University (BS160219) for support of
this research.
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