“…Transition metal-mediated cross-coupling reactions is one of the most powerful and versatile methods for the generation of unsymmetrical biaryls which are widely found as important structural units in pharmaceuticals [1], natural products [2], bioactive products [3], herbicides [4], conducting polymers [5], liquid crystal materials [6] and microelectrode arrays [7]. These cross-coupling transformations include organozinc (Negishi) [8] reaction, organotin (Stille) [9] reaction, organoboron (Suzuki-Miyaura) [10] reaction, and organomagnesium (Kumada) reaction [11].…”