A highly efficient additive-dependent chemoselective protocol for the synthesis of fused cyanoarenes and 2-alkynylpyridines has been developed by the reaction of 1,6-diynes with alkynylnitriles using chloro(pentamethylcy ...

The development of efficient methodologies for the construction of complex aromatic/heteroaromatic molecular structures has received widespread attention because of their ubiquitous presence in various natural products, ...

Introduction N-Aryl-, 1-(2-pyridyl)- and 3-(2-thiopyridyl)indoles are ubiquitously found in various pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals as shown in figure 1. Over the past decades, transition metal catalyzed C-H activation ...