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In the presence of a catalytic amount of VO(acac)2, oxidative coupling of 2-naphthol or phenol derivatives with molecular oxygen occurred at room temperature and selectively gave the corresponding ortho–ortho coupling products in moderate to high yields.
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Hwang et al. (1999) studied this question.
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