Royal Society of Chemistry, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 40(19), p. 8735-8739, 2021
DOI: 10.1039/d1ob01507a
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A one-pot procedure with a tandem reaction sequence of oxidative gold catalysis, nucleophilic addition and oxygenation was employed to synthesize 1,2-diones from 2-phenylimidazo[1,2-a]pyridines and terminal alkynes in good yields.