Research Progress on the Synthesis of Biphenyl Compounds

联苯类化合物是重要的化工中间体，具有联苯骨架的分子在药物、农用化学品、配体、手性试剂、聚合物和有机材料中都有广泛的应用，因此，此类化合物的合成引起了学术界和工业界的极大兴趣。化学家们发展了许多合成方法，在本文中，首先综述了联苯类化合物的结构特征和应用前景，然后从反应类型对近年来合成联苯类化合物的方法进行了总结和归纳，为此类化合物的合成研究提供借鉴。Biphenyl compounds are important chemical intermediates, and molecules with a biphenyl skeleton have a wide range of applications in pharmaceuticals, agricultural chemicals, ligands, chiral reagents, polymers, and organic materials. Therefore, the synthesis of such compounds has aroused great interest in both academia and industry. Chemists have developed many synthetic methods. In this article, we first summarize the structural characteristics and application prospects of biphenyl compounds, and then summarize and generalize the methods for synthesizing biphenyl compounds in recent years from the perspective of reaction types, providing reference for the synthesis research of such compounds.