“…Despite the wide interest in such structural features, synthesizing 2,2′‐diformamidobiphenyls and 2,2′‐diaminobiaryls in general, is still a challenging task since anilines severely suffer from oxidative polymerization to polyaniline, also known as aniline black . A commonly used classical approach to symmetrical 2,2′‐diaminobiaryls is the copper‐mediated Ullmann reaction, whereas direct oxidative cross‐coupling reactions using stoichiometric amounts of Cu II salts have only been reported for a few naphthylamines and provided the desired biaryls in fairly low yield . An organocatalytic approach uses sigmatropic rearrangements of diaryl hydrazines in the presence of catalytic amounts of an acid to provide symmetrical 2,2′‐diaminobiaryls in good yield.…”