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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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We thank Dr. Jianbin Wu (The Scripps Research Institute) for
the synthesis of some early intermediates and obtaining
crystalline 30. We also thank the NSF (CHE-0619638) for an
X-ray diffractometer and Prof. Gerard Parkin and Dr. Joshua
Palmer (Columbia University) for obtaining an X-ray crystal
structure of 30 and Dr. Antoni Jurkiewicz and Dr. C. Jin Qin
(University of Chicago) for assistance with NMR and mass
spectrometry of late intermediates. We also thank Mr. Yifan Gu
(University of Chicago) for obtaining HPLC traces of 18 and
Prof. Thomas Maimone and Mr. Matthew Condakes (UC
Berkeley) for synthetic samples of the mepp ligand and Fe-
complex. Financial support came from Columbia University, The
Scripps Research Institute, the University of Chicago, and
unrestricted funds from DuPont (2011 Young Professor Award
to S.A.S.) and Bristol-Myers Squibb (2011 Grant to S.A.S.).
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