financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21825108 and 22331011).
The asymmetric hydrogenation of N-heteroarenes provides an efficient method for the synthesis of optically active cyclic secondary amines.In this paper,we described an asymmetric hydrogenation of phenanthridines using...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21871226 and 21572194);the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(2020JJ5531);the Open Fund of Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates,Guangzhou 510640,China(South China University of Technology)(No.2019B030301003);the Undergraduate Investigated Study and Innovated Experiment Plan from Ministry of Education of China and Hunan Province is gratefully acknowledged.
A three-component synthesis of benzo[a]phenanthridines from aromatic aldehydes,cyclohexanones,and aromatic amines has been developed,which is mediated by KI/DMSO/camphorsulfonic acid to afford a variety of functionali...