Dihydrobenzofurans and indolines are common substructures in medicines and natural products. Herein, the authors report a palladium-catalyzed [3 + 2] (hetero)annulation proceeding in an anti-selective fashion and enabling direct access to these valuable heterocycles with broad reaction scope.
- Hui-Qi Ni
- Ilia Kevlishvili
- Keary M. Engle
