“…As Li and Van der Eycken reported in their valuable reviews, some other silver salts (e.g., Ag 3 PW 12 O 40 [6] , AgX [7]), complexes [8], zeolites [9] and nanoparticles [10–11] have been explored to catalyze the A 3 -coupling, but only recently, silver–NHC complexes were found to be valuable catalysts for this MCR. Their first application was reported by Wang and co-workers in 2008 [12], who developed a polystyrene-supported NHC–Ag(I) complex as an efficient catalyst for the A 3 -coupling under solvent-free conditions, at room temperature, and under a nitrogen atmosphere.…”