The first synthesis of clusiparalicoline A, a prenylated and geranylated biphenyl compound isolated from the roots of Clusia paralicola, has been achieved by applying the sequential palladium-catalyzed Stille and Suzuki reactions to the formation of all the C C bonds on electron-rich aryl bromide and triflate. Clusiparalicoline A has been found to exhibit a potent neurite outgrowth promoting activity at 1.0 μM in a primary culture of fetal rat cortical ...