Palladium -mediated oxidative couplings intermolecular

Since the intermolecular oxidative coupling of benzene to biphenyl using stoichiometric amounts of PdCl2 was first described by van Helden and Verberg in 1965 [41], the intramolecular oxidative coupling of two arenes mediated by a palladium catalyst to synthesize cyclic compounds has also attracted great attention. 

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