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By simply heating phenylacetonitriles 1 with elemental sulfur and DMSO in the presence of a catalytic amount of DABCO, we have performed an oxidative trimerization leading to polysubstituted pyrrole heterocycles 2 in excellent yields and the E configuration.
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