“…The importance of these heterocyclic compounds has generated a considerable number of synthetic approaches. Hence, the formation of the nitrogen-containing ring of 4-substituted 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinolines has been achieved with several reactions such as Bischler-Napieralski [ 24 , 25 , 26 ], intramolecular Horner [ 27 ], Friedel-Crafts [ 21 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 ] Pictet-Spengler [ 33 ], and oxazoline-driven chemistry [ 34 ], among others [ 25 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 ]. Most of the reported methods for the synthesis of these compounds are either multistep or low yielding.…”