Lactams and pyridines are privileged scaffolds, but strategies for combining these groups into one molecule are lacking. Now, N–N pyridinium ylides have been shown to form triplet state diradicals under photoinduced energy transfer, and subsequent [3+2] cycloaddition with the tethered alkene enables the synthesis of diverse ortho-pyridyl lactams.
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Wang, PZ., Chen, JR. Diradical ring formation. Nat. Chem. 15, 1058–1059 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-023-01263-5
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