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ported by the UC, Irvine, and the NIH (1DP2GM119164
RCS) and 1RO1MH109588 (RCS). Popik lab is supported
by NSF (CHE-1565646).
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ASSOCIATED CONTENT
Supporting Information.
The Supporting Information is available free of charge on
the ACS Publications website. Experimental methods, syn-
thetics schemes and spectra for all compounds.
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AUTHOR INFORMATION
Corresponding Author
*rspitale@uci.edu
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We thank members of the Spitale Lab for discussions. S.N.
is supported as a BEST-IGERT fellow. Spitale lab is sup-
ACS Paragon Plus Environment