“…As indicated, this is a challenging research endeavor, and quite frequently, the yields of the applied procedures are moderate or even low [ 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ]. Therefore, it is not surprising that the number of papers devoted to the elaboration of methods to prepare these compounds has increased in recent years [ 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 ]. The most commonly used method for the introduction of a phosphonate moiety to an sp 2 hybridized aromatic carbon atom is a palladium-catalyzed reaction [ 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 ].…”