General and Efficient Copper‐Catalyzed Three‐Component Coupling Reaction towards Imidazoheterocycles: One‐Pot Synthesis of Alpidem and Zolpidem

Three is not a crowd: A method for the construction of imidazopyridine, imidazoquinoline, and imidazoisoquinoline frameworks has been developed. The synthetic utility of this method was demonstrated in a highly efficient one-pot synthesis of the drugs alpidem and zolpidem (see scheme). 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.