Yong Zheng, Wei-Bin Song, Shu-Wei Zhang and Li-Jiang Xuan
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015,13, 6474-6478
DOI:
10.1039/C5OB00601E,
Communication
A ruthenium-catalyzed oxidative coupling of 2-aryl-quinazolinones with olefins via C–H bond activation followed by an intramolecular aza-Michael reaction is described. This strategy allows the direct and efficient construction of pyrrolo[2,1-b]quinazolin-9(1H)-one scaffolds.