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

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

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    Ximei Zhao, Matthias Rudolph & A. Stephen K. Hashmi

  2. Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, 21589, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Abdullah M. Asiri & A. Stephen K. Hashmi

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Zhao, X., Rudolph, M., Asiri, A.M. et al. Easy access to pharmaceutically relevant heterocycles by catalytic reactions involving α-imino gold carbene intermediates. Front. Chem. Sci. Eng. 14, 317–349 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11705-019-1874-4

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