10.1002/anie.201810262
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
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Keywords: aromatic substitution • amination • radical reactions •
photocatalysis • synthetic methods
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Acknowledgements
We thank C. Farés, S. Tobegen, M. Kochius, and J. Börgel (MPI
KOFO) for assistance with NMR structural assignment, as well
as S. Marcus and D. Kampen (MPI KOFO) for mass
spectroscopy analysis. We thank Prof. G. C. Lloyd-Jones
(University of Edinburgh) for helpful discussion. W. Ham thanks
the Kwanjeong Educational Foundation for funding. We thank
UCB
Biopharma
and
the
Max-Planck-Institut
für
Kohlenforschung for funding.
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