Palladium-Catalyzed Construction of Heteroatom-Containing π-Conjugated Systems by Intramolecular Oxidative C-H/C-H Coupling Reaction.

Synthesis of heteroatom-containing ladder-type π-conjugated molecules was successfully achieved via a palladium-catalyzed intramolecular oxidative C-H/C-H cross-coupling reaction. This reaction provides a variety of π-conjugated molecules bearing heteroatoms, such as nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur atoms, and a carbonyl group. The π-conjugated molecules were synthesized efficiently, even in gram scale, and larger π-conjugated molecules were also obtained by a double C-H/C-H cross-coupling reaction and successive oxidative cycloaromatization.