“…It exists in the zwitterionic state rather than the aminosulfonic acid form as evidenced from X-ray and neutron diffraction experiments . Sulfamic acid has been successfully used as an effective catalyst in carrying out certain useful organic reactions including Friedel–Crafts reaction, Aldol condensation, Michael addition, Mannich-type reactions, − Strecker reaction, Biginelli reaction, one-pot synthesis of triazolo[5,1- b ] quinazolines, dihydropyridines, 1,4-dihydropyrano[2,3- c ]pyrazoles, esterification reaction, and many others. − This successful prehistory of sulfamic acid as a commercially available low-cost and environmentally benign ogano-catalyst with an intrinsic zwitterionic property encouraged us to investigate its further applications in some other carbon–carbon bond forming reactions. In this paper, we wish to extend the synthetic applicability of this unique catalyst in the one-pot synthesis of both the 3,3-bis(indol-3-yl)indolin-2-one ( 3 ) and 2,2-di(1 H -indol-3-yl)acenaphthylen-1(2 H )-one ( 5 ) scaffolds of pharmacological interest under the same optimized reaction conditions.…”