Remote Amide‐Controlled Gold‐Catalyzed Stereoselective Hydro‐heteroarylation of Acrylamides: Access to Pyrido[3,4‐b]indoles
The amide functionality was used as a remote control for the stereoselective hydro-heteroarylation of acrylamides. This gold-catalyzed carbocyclization provides a diversity-oriented and concise route to biologically important pyrido[3,4-b]indoles. Moreover, the adverse effect of silver salts on this hydro-heteroarylation was also studied.