Aromatic compounds, fused halides

Grignard reagents Organomagnesium halides RMgX having a C-Mg bond, halohydrins Halo alcohols. For example, ethylene bromohydrin is BrCH2CH20H. helicenes Ortho-fused polycyclic aromatic compounds that have a helical structure. 

This reaction has the advantage that only one product (11) (head-to-head coupling product) is formed. Additional results are shown in Table 5. Aromatic bromides and iodides easily react with vinylic boron compounds, but organic chlorides do not participated, except the reactive allylic and benzylic derivatives. Heteroaromatic halides can be used as coupling partners. Or// o-substituents on benzene ring do not give difficulty. Thus, the cross-coupling reaction is used for the synthesis of benzo-fused heteroaromatic compounds (eq 5) (6). 

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