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Acknowledgements
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This work was funded by the German Research Foundation (International Research
Training Group IRTG 1038, ‘Catalysts and Catalytic Reactions for Organic Synthesis’), the
Alfried Krupp Award for young university teachers of the Krupp foundation (to B.B.) and
BASF SE. We thank A. Lutterer, S. Ikkes, H. Ziegler and G. Leonhard-Lutterbeck for
technical assistance.
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Author contributions
J.W. and B.B. conceived and designed the experiments. J.W. performed the experiments.
J.W. and B.B. co-wrote the paper.
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