“…In addition, unstable imines can be easily prepared and used directly for the one-pot synthesis of various functional molecules, thus providing a series of innovative catalytic oxidation processes. This metal-free imine synthesis method not only enables the one-pot synthesis of important heterocyclic compounds, but also the highly selective one-pot reactions (e.g., the Ugi reaction) of multicomponent linkages ( Dong, et al, 2017 ; Kumazawa, et al, 2018 ; Dong et al, 2019 ; Yamamoto et al, 2021 ). To further elucidate the versatility of this metal-free imine synthesis method, we attempted one-pot synthesis for reactions that are typically multistep, and succeeded in the metal-free synthesis of quinazoline derivatives ( Wang and Gao, 2013 ; Faisal and Saeed, 2021 ), which are one of the heterocycles forming the basis of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and functional materials (eq 2).…”