“…To address these issues, we hypothesized that the steric effect of the aryl groups initially introduced at the 1,5-positions would allow the regioselective introduction of aryl groups at the 3-and 7-positions in the second CDC reaction (Scheme 14). [88] In this strategy, the readily available 1,5-dibromonaphthalene can be used as the starting material for the introduction of aryl groups by conventional crosscoupling reactions. To prove this concept, xylyl, pentafluorophenyl, and diarylamino groups were introduced at the 1,5positions of naphthalene using the Suzuki-Miyaura crosscoupling, direct arylation, and the Buchwald-Hartwig reaction, respectively.…”