A palladium-catalyzed reaction sequence consisting of an intermolecular amination and an intramolecular direct arylation enabled highly regioselective syntheses of functionalized indoles or carbazoles and proved to be amenable to the use of inexpensive 1,2-dichloroarenes as electrophiles.
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Ackermann et al. (2009) studied this question.