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An efficient copper-catalyzed synthesis of N-substituted isatins has been developed in good yields from easily accessible arylacetamides. A wide range of electronically and structurally varied nitrogen fragments could be assembled through this tandem C–O/C–N bond-forming process by tuning the reaction conditions.
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