Growing interest has been paid to bis-(tricyclic) aromatic enes as key components of functional organic materials such as molecular switches and chargetransporting materials. Currently, the synthetic approaches to the overcrowded alkenes are limited to McMurry coupling and Barton−Kellog olefination. This communication reports that palladium-catalyzed double cross-coupling reaction of phenazastannines with 9-(dibromomethylene)fluorene, -xanthene, -thioxanthene, and -thioxanthene-S,S-dioxide serves as a facile synthetic approach to bis(tricyclic) aromatic enes such as 9-(9Hfluoren-9-ylidene)acridines, 9-(9H-oxanthen-9-ylidene)acridines, 9-(9H-thioxanthen-9-ylidene)acridines, and 9-(10,10-dioxido-9H-thioxanthen-9-ylidene)acridines.
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