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Keywords:

  • benzo[b]thiophenes;
  • cross-coupling;
  • electrophilic addition;
  • electrophilic substitution;
  • phthalimidesulfenyl chloride;
  • solid phase synthesis

Abstract

Diarylalkynes are readily transformed in 3-chlorobenzo[b]thiophenes in a two-step electrophilic addition-cyclization procedure that runs highly efficiently in solution or in the solid phase. The heteroaromatic carbon-chlorine bond participates in palladium-catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura or Buchwald–Hartwig cross-couplings to give, in a single step, 2,3-disubstituted derivatives of pharmacological relevance .