Hypervalent Iodine(Ⅲ)-Mediated Benzannulation of Enamines with Alkynes: an Efficient Synthesis of Substituted Aminonaphthoic Acid Derivatives

An intermolecular two C-C bond formation procedure for the synthesis of carbocycles mediated by hyperva-lent iodine(III)reagents was developed.This metal free protocol provided a new approach for the synthesis of use-ful substituted 1-amino-2-naphthoic acid derivatives via benzannulation reactions.Various N-unsubstituted and N-alkyl substituted aromatic enamines with terminal alkynes and non-terminal alkynes can be converted into corre-sponding 1-amino-2-naphthoic acid derivatives under mild reaction conditions.When meta-substituted phenyl enamines were employed in the reaction,two cyclization paths were detected in the reaction and ortho-cyclization products were the only or major products.Good functional group tolerance,readily available material and high atom utilization efficiency make this method a potential procedure which may find broad application in organic synthesis.