Novel unsymmetrical terpyridines 1 and 2 are synthesized using intra- and intermolecular Michael additions as the key reactions, followed by the construction of the central pyridine ring. Terpyridine 1 represents a heretofore unknown hexacyclic ring system.
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Kelly et al. (2002) studied this question.