While one-to-one scaffold hopping strategies are thriving and evolving, one-to-multiple strategies remain challenging to design. Here, the authors report a scaffold hopping strategy for the skeletal editing of pyrimidines into a wide range of heteroarenes through the addition of nucleophiles, ring-opening, fragmentation, and ring-closing processes.
- Shun Li
- Yonglin Shi
- Haiyan Fu
