Organic Letters
Letter
Scheme 6. Isotopic Labeling Experiments and X-ray
Structure of Unlabeled 36
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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The authors thank the EPSRC, GlaxoSmithKline, and the
University of Strathclyde for financial support and the EPSRC
Mass Spectrometry Service, Swansea, for high-resolution
spectra.
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Analytical data, experimental procedures, and NMR
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