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A series o
f homo- and heteroditopic thymine- and/or adenine-terminated molecules incorporating rigid aryl or oligo(phenylene ethynylene)linkers has been e
fficiently synthesized. The key steps involved in the synthesis are the construction o
f the
N-arylated nucleobases using theChan-Lam-Evans-modi
fied Ullman coupling and their
further elaboration using the Sonogashira coupling. Furthermore, the synthesis o
f arigid tripodal thymine derivative is reported.