Gold(III)‐Catalyzed Site‐Selective and Divergent Synthesis of 2‐Aminopyrroles and Quinoline‐Based Polyazaheterocycles

A facile, site-selective, and divergent approach to construct 2-aminopyrroles and quinoline-fused polyazaheterocycles enabled by a simple gold(III) catalyst from ynamides and anthranils under mild reaction conditions is described. This one-pot strategy uses readily available starting materials, proceeds in a highly step- and atom-economical manner, with broad substrate scope and scale-up potential. The key element for success in this tandem reaction is a catalyst-directed preferred quenching of the in situ generated gold carbene intermediates by a nucleophilic benzyl/2-furylmethyl moiety on the ynamides as an alternative to the known C-H annulation leading to indoles.