“…Imines (Schiff bases) are widely presented in natural products, bioactive compounds and pharmaceutical structures ( Kobayashi et al, 2011 ; Nielsen et al, 2011 ). It is prevalent in the field of fine chemical, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries and plays an important role in the synthesis of N-containing heterocyclic ( Dhakshinamoorthy and Garcia 2014 ; Bhaskaruni et al, 2020 ; Djakovitch et al, 2011 ) compounds as a nitrogen source ( Shang et al, 2019 ; Chen et al, 2021 ; Long et al, 2017 ; Hong and Ye 2020 ; Chen et al, 2015 ). In particular, the implementation of one-pot tandem/cascade catalytic reactions to realize imines and their derivatives are of the greatest interest to chemical researchers ( Huang et al, 2017 ; Wu et al, 2019 ; Wang et al, 2018 ).…”