“…In the past several decades, the transitionmetal-catalyzed Stille cross-coupling reaction has evolved as a powerful synthetic tool for the synthesis of unsymmetrical biaryls 3 , which are widely present in numerous classes of organic compounds, such as natural products, polymers, advanced materials, liquid crystals, ligands and molecules of medicinal interest 4 . Most of the reported Stille reactions are based on the use of aryl halides [5][6][7] , triflates 8 , sulfonyl chlorides 9 , sulfonates 10 and carboxylates 11 as one of the reaction components. As an alternative candidate for the electrophilic coupling partner, arenediazonium salts have also been employed in place of aryl halides in the Stille cross-coupling reaction 12 , and show high activity.…”