A highly efficient gold/silver-catalyzed addition of arenes to imines.
A highly efficient imino Friedel-Crafts type addition of arenes to imines is developed by using a combination of gold and silver catalysts; various amino acid derivatives are generated by this method.
Luo
Yumei
Y
Department of Chemistry, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA.
Li
Chao-Jun
CJ