“…Multisubstituted furans are of great importance because numerous interesting compounds bearing such a heterocyclic ring exhibit a wide array of activity and are also building blocks for organic synthesis. , Many synthetic routes toward furan rings with specific substitution patterns have been designed and well applied, , such as direct functionalization of furan rings, cyclocondensation of 1,4-dicarbonyl compounds (Paal−Knorr synthesis), Feist−Bénary synthesis, and transition metal-catalyzed cycloisomerization of alkynyl or allenyl substrates. , To our surprise, of these developed strategies, − there are few literature reports for the syntheses of tetrasubstituted furans with three aryl groups and a ketone, an ester, or a cyano group . Therefore, a strong demand remains to develop an efficient approach.…”