Multisubstituted benzofurans/indoles are a critical class of compounds in the fields of pharmaceuticals and natural products. A useful method of preparing 2-substituted benzofurans/indoles is the Pd-catalyzed Sonogashira coupling of 2-halophenols/2-haloanilines and terminal alkynes, followed by cyclization. For the syntheses of multisubstituted benzofurans/indoles, the use of multichlorinated phenols/anilines as coupling partners is powerful because the synthetic steps required are reduced and all dichlorophenol and dichloroaniline positional isomers are commercially available and inexpensive. However, their use in benzofuran/indole synthesis is limited because of their low reactivity compared with those of the corresponding iodo or bromo compounds. Furthermore, site-selective Sonogashira coupling at the 2-position of the multihalogenated phenols/anilines is sterically and electronically challenging. To overcome these problems, dihydroxyterphenylphosphine (DHTP) has been developed as a ligand that enables the highly ortho-selective Sonogashira coupling of 2-chlorophenols/2-chloroanilines with terminal alkynes. Using the Pd-DHTP catalyst, chlorinated benzofurans/indoles are successfully obtained, which are easily converted to other derivatives by substitution of the chloro group. In this review, we summarize this and related studies to demonstrate the utility of this method. CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Synthesis of Disubstituted Benzofurans from Dichlorophenols 2-1. Synthesis of Monochlorobenzofurans from Dichlorophenols via ortho-Selective Sonogashira Coupling/Cyclization 2-2. One-Pot Synthesis of Disubstituted Benzofurans via ortho-Selective Sonogashira Coupling/Cyclization/Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling 3. Synthesis of Multisubstituted Benzofurans from Dichlorophenols via ortho-Selective Sonogashira Coupling/Cacchi Cyclization 4. Synthesis of Multisubstituted Indoles from Multichlorinated Anilines 4-1. Synthesis of Multisubstituted Indoles from Dichloroanilines via ortho-Selective Sonogashira Coupling/Cyclization 4-2. One-Pot Synthesis of Multisubstituted Indoles from Dichloroanilines via ortho-Selective Sonogashira Coupling/Cyclization/Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling 4-3. Synthesis of 2,5,7-Trisubstituted Indoles from 2,4,6-Trichloroaniline 5. Conclusion