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Published TCIMAIL newest issue No.197
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Biphenylene (1) is a hydrocarbon with a strained four-membered ring moiety. The carbon-carbon bond linking two benzene rings of 1 is cleaved by the transition metal and then used in the formation of new carbon-carbon bonds with different chemical species.1) For instance, Itami and his co-workers introduced an annulative cross-coupling with biphenylene. They synthesized 2a and 2b as a separable mixture of diastereomers from 1 and 1,5,9-trichlorotriphenylene.2) Zhang et al. developed the palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of 2-alkylphenyl bromides with 1 through C(sp3)-H activation.3)