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A new, flexible route to the substituted triphenylenes has been developed which involves the preparation of terphenyls using a palladium-catalysed cross-coupling of arylzinc halides with 1,2-dihalogenobenzenes, followed by oxidative cyclisation of these terphenyl using ferric chloride.
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