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A wide range of directing groups (ester, ketone, acetate, aryl sulfonate, triazene, carbamate) allow the regioselective directed ortho insertion (DoI) of zinc in the presence of LiCl leading to polyfunctional aryl and heteroaryl zinc reagents.
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Boudet et al. (2007) studied this question.
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