“…[14] A method without diazonium salts was developed by Hünig et al: under oxidative conditions, hydrazones can be coupled to arenes (Scheme 1 C). [15,16] However, this procedure is limited to highly activated aromatic compounds such as anilines. In the following, we describe a novel procedure which is based on N-heterocyclic carbenes, N 2 O, arenes, and AlCl 3 (Scheme 1 D).…”