Most compounds synthesized for this campaign followed a general three-step route (Scheme 1, A); all chemical experiments are available in full in the relevant "live" online electronic laboratory notebooks as well as in snapshot copies archived in an electronic university repository. The starting α-bromoketones 1 were cyclized with the desired 2-amino heterocycles 2 to afford fused bicycles 3 that were brominated at the 5-position of the imidazole ring to give 4. Final compounds 5 were synthesized using standard Suzuki coupling conditions under either conventional or microwave heating.