Zhijian Liu, Richard C Larock
2004
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[reaction: see text] An efficient route to synthesize a variety of carbazoles and dibenzofurans has been developed. It involves the reaction of o-iodoanilines or o-iodophenols with silylaryl triflates in the presence of CsF to afford the N- or O-arylated products, which are subsequently cyclized using a Pd catalyst to carbazoles and dibenzofurans in good to excellent yields. This chemistry tolerates a variety of functional groups.