Palladium‐Catalyzed Aryl Iodide Carbonylation as a Route to Imidazoline Synthesis: Design of a Five‐Component Coupling Reaction

Take five: A new method employing aryl halide carbonylation to directly access heterocycles has been described (see scheme). In a single palladium-catalyzed reaction the catalyst mediates two consecutive carbonylation steps, thereby converting five components (aryl iodide, two units imine, and two units CO) into an imidazoline ring. Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.