showed high efficiency for the couplingreactions of aminoacids and inactive aryl halides to give N-aryl aminoacids. Under the catalytic conditions, not only α-amino acids, but also β-, γ-, and δ-amino acids have been coupled with aryl chlorides in moderate to high yields; in the case of optically pure β-amino acids as substrates, the optical purities of the coupling products retained.
A visible‐light‐driven sequential photoredox catalysis to allow N‐aryl α‐amino acids to experience efficient cascade aerobic decarboxylative Povarov and oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) reactions is described. With a dicyanopyrazine‐derived chromophore (DPZ) as a photoredoxcatalyst in both transformations, two series of valuable azaarenes, i. e., 4‐amino tetrahydroquinolines (THQs) and quinolines,