Download full text in PDF Opens in a new window. Article suggestions will be shown in a dialog on return to ScienceDirect. ... Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. ... Dilithiated species 1, 2, and 3, generated by metal-halogen exchange and directed ortho metalation, undergo reaction with electrophiles to afford, in high yield, polysubstituted aromatics 6, 7, and 8 respectively; 9 is formed via a bis anionic Fries rearrangement of 3.
