“…In 2020, Hong and co‐workers described a NHC‐Catalyzed radical reaction between Katritzky salts and aldehydes for realizing acylation of α‐amino acids and their derivatives (Scheme 31). [44] In this reaction, the seven‐membered ring fused thiazolium salt was used as the catalyst and Cs 2 CO 3 as the base. Generally, amino acids including glutamic, alanine, homoalanine, valine, norvaline, methionine, phenylalanine, homophenylalanine were well tolerated, affording the deaminative acylation products in moderate to good yields.…”