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Valuable 4‐ and 5‐membered benzocarbocycles were synthesized via selective palladium‐catalyzed cascade reactions which combined C(sp3)H activation, Heck cyclization, Heck arylation or olefin hydrogenation. In all cases, all mechanistically independent steps were catalyzed by a single multi‐functional catalyst.
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