“…Phenyl groups provide a lateral extension of the 3D adamantane core and they can be easily halogenated to afford a range of functionalization possibilities. Para-substitution at the extremity of the four aryl groups is performed through iodination [72][73][74] or bromination [72,73] with high yields. 1,3,5,7-Tetrakis(4-iodophenyl)adamantane (13) can participate in numerous palladium catalyzed cross-coupling reactions including Suzuki-Miyaura [72,75,76], Sonogashira [29,36,73,75,77], Mizoroki-Heck [78], and multicomponent cascade reactions [27].…”