Key points are not available for this paper at this time.
An iodination, a protodesilylation, and a Pd/Cu-catalyzed cross coupling are the three reactions needed to successively double the length of molecular units to form 1, a 128 Å long linear 16-mer, in a doubling sequence with only four iterations. Compound 1 could possibly serve as a molecular wire in molecular electronics studies.
Schumm et al. (Mon,) studied this question.