Co-reporter:Takahiro Nakae, Ryuji Ohnishi, Yoshiharu Kitahata, Tatsuya Soukawa, Hisako Sato, Shigeki Mori, Tetsuo Okujima, Hidemitsu Uno, Hiroshi Sakaguchi
Tetrahedron Letters 2012 Volume 53(Issue 13) pp:1617-1619
Publication Date(Web):28 March 2012
DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2012.01.071
6,13-Diiododibenzo[a,h]anthracene and 5,8-diiodopicene were synthesized by AuCl-catalyzed double cyclization. The highly selective reaction yielded a new class of peri-halogenated fused aromatics.