Easy access to pharmaceutically relevant heterocycles by catalytic reactions involving α-imino gold carbene intermediates

Abstract

This review summarizes recent advances in the field of gold-catalyzed synthesis of pharmaceutically relevant aza-heterocycles via in situ generated α-imino gold carbene complexes as intermediates.

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Keywords

gold / heterocycles / alkynes

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Acknowledgements

Zhao X is grateful to the China Scholarship Council for a Ph.D. fellowship.

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