摘要

The synthesis of an undocumented skeleton of 3-hydroxy-2,3-dihydroisoquinoline-1,4-diones has been discovered and reported. The reaction consists of an intramolecular cyclization of o-(1-alkynyl)benzamides in MeCN/H2O, mediated by metal-free, hypervalent reagent of PhI(OCOCF3)(2), followed by an oxidative hydroxylation reaction: The mechanism consisting of two pathways has been proposed and discussed: