“…A variety of structural features surrounded the naturally occurring and synthetically prepared piperidines, among them many exhibit significant biological properties including anti-HIV, anticancer, antimycobacterial, antimicrobial, antimalarial, antiinflammatory, antiinsecticidal and they are potent inhibitors for many biological systems [10][11][12][13][14]. Much considerable efforts have been focused on the synthetic methods and some of the synthetic routes have been recommended for the synthesis of highly substituted piperidines essentially intramolecular Mannich reaction [15], cyclohydrocarboxylation [16], aziridine ring expansion [17], radical cyclization [18], domino reaction [19], Diels-Alder reaction [20], imino Diels-Alder reaction [21] and domino imino-aldol-azaMichael addition [22]. Recently one-pot synthesis of these scaffolds has been achieved by employing InCl 3 [23], bromodimethylsulfonium bromide [24], L-proline/TFA [25], tetrabutylammonium tribromide [26], molecular I 2 [27], CAN [28], ZrOCl 2 Á8H 2 O [29], picric acid [30], thiourea dioxide (TUD) [31], BF 3 -SiO 2 [32], VCl 3 [33] and Bi(NO 3 ) 3 Á5H 2 O [34] as efficient catalysts.…”