“…1 H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl 3 ): δ 8.66 (s, 2H), 7.54−7.60 (m, 2H), 7.17−7.35 (m, 6H), 2.58 (s, 6H). 13 (27), 341 (100, M + ), 305 (13), 304 (27), 303 (10), 277 (11), 276 (21) (19), 425 (55, M + ), 413 (11), 412 (34), 411 (31), 410 (100), 197 (14), 169 (13), 73 (15), 57 (20), 41 (84), 39 (13). (7), 286 (13), 266 (7), 175 (8) If not otherwise stated, an oven-dried pressure tube charged with the respective 3,5diarylalkynyl-4-chloropyridine 1a-l (200 mg, 1.0 equiv), K 3 PO 4 (2.0 equiv), PdCl 2 (MeCN) 2 (0.05 equiv), SPhos (0.1 equiv), and 3thienylboronic acid (2.0 equiv) was evacuated and backfilled with argon for 3 times.…”