Agradecimentos: I. D. J. acknowledges the Fulbright Foundation for a Junior Faculty Award and the support of Fapesp (2015/20809-4) and CNPq (458416/2014-2). H. M. L. D. was supported by the National Science Foundation (CHE 1465189). Instrumentation used in this work was supported by the National Science Foundation (CHE 1531620 and CHE 1626172). We thank Dr John Bacsa (Emory University, U.S.) for the X-ray structure determination of 5g Ver menos

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