supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant no.21772183);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(grant no.WK2060190086);“1000-Youth Talents Plan”start-up funding as well as the University of Science and Technology of China.
In this paper,we developed an electrophilic ring-opening reaction,which is beyond the strained small ring system.Under reductive nickel catalysis,ring-opening of diverse benzofurans via endocyclic inert carbon–oxygen...