Palladium-catalyzed cross-couplings of functionalized 2-bromobenzofurans for atom-economic synthesis of 2-arylbenzofurans using triarylbismuth reagents

The palladium catalyzed, atom-economic synthesis of various functionalized 2-arylbenzofurans was achieved through cross-coupling reaction of 2-bromobenzofurans with triarylbismuth reagents. The palladium catalytic protocol is very efficient to furnish various cross-coupled functionalized 2-arylbenzofurnas in high yields using triarylbismuth reagents with three aryl couplings as multi-coupling organometallic nucleophiles in one-pot operation. All the coupling reactions were completed in 1 h short reaction time involving three couplings from triarylbismuths under heating condition.