Ruthenium (II)‐Catalyzed Oxidant‐Free Coupling/Cyclization of Benzimidates and Sulfoxonium Ylides to Form Substituted Isoquinolines

Computational and experimental studies on copper-mediated selective cascade C-H/N-H annulation of electron-deficient acrylamide with arynes

An efficient and convenient copper-mediated method has been developed to achieve direct cascade C-H/N-H annulation to synthesize 2-quinolinones from electron-deficient acrylamides and arynes. This method highlights an emerging but simple strategy to transform inert C-H bonds into versatile functional groups in organic synthesis to provide a new method of synthesizing 2-quinolinones efficiently. Mechanistic investigations by experimental and density functional theory (DFT) studies suggest that an organometallic C-H activation via a Cu(iii) intermediate is likely to be involved in the reaction.

Ruthenium(ii)-catalyzed selective C–H bond activation of imidamides and coupling with sulfoxonium ylides: an efficient approach for the synthesis of highly functional 3-ketoindoles

Ruthenium-catalyzed selective C–H bond activation of imidamides and annulation of sulfoxonium ylides were achieved, which afforded a series of 3-ketoindole derivatives in good yields, with good functional group compatibility.

Synthesis of 1-aminoindole derivatives via Rh(iii)-catalyzed annulation reactions of hydrazines with sulfoxonium ylides

Rhodium(iii)-catalyzed C–H functionalization followed by intramolecular annulation reactions between hydrazines and sulfoxonium ylides is described.

Imidates: an emerging synthon for N-heterocycles

This review highlights the recent application of imidates as building blocks for the synthesis of saturated and un-saturated N-heterocycles via C–N annulation reactions under acid/base/metal-catalyzed/radical-mediated reaction conditions.