Acknowledgments
We dedicate this Letter to Colorado State University Distinguished
Professor Robert M. Williams on the occasion of his 60th
birthday. We thank Professor Gil Belofsky (CWU) for assistance
with 2D-NMR spectroscopy. We also thank Dr. John Greaves and
Ms. Shirin Sorooshian of the University of California, Irvine Mass
Spectrometry Facility for mass spectrometric data. Partial funding
was provided by a CWU College of the Sciences (COTS) Undergraduate
Research Grant (COTS-URG) for J.C.B. and CWU Office of
Undergraduate Research Undergraduate Research Fellowships for
J.C.B. and B.P.P.
Supplementary data
Supplementary data (complete experimental procedures, copies
of all spectral data, tables of normalized 1
H and 13C NMR peak data,
2D NMR data to support corrected peak assignments, and full characterization)
associated with this article can be found, in the online
version,