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Heterocycles represent one of the largest groups of organic moieties with significant medicinal, chemical, and industrial applications. Herein, we report the discovery and development of visible-light-induced, synergistic excited-state copper catalysis using a combination of Cu(IPr)I as a catalyst and rac-BINAP as a ligand, which produces more than 10 distinct classes of heterocycles. The reaction tolerates a broad array of functional groups and complex molecular scaffolds, including derivatives of peptides, natural products, and marketed drugs. Preliminary mechanistic investigation suggests in situ generations of [Cu(BINAP)(2)](+) and [Cu(IPr)(2)](+) catalysts that work cooperatively under visible-light irradiation to facilitate catalytic carbo-aroylation of unactivated alkenes, affording a wide range of useful heterocycles.

An efficient protocol has been developed for the synthesis of pyridines and 1,4-dihydropyridines based on chemoselective multicomponent reactions. Using readily available aldehydes, malononitrile and primary aliphatic amines, this procedure provides a divergent but straightforward access to a wide range of fully substituted pyridines and dihydropyridines via a primary amine based chemoselective strategy. Simple reaction procedure, good yields, mild reaction conditions, applicabilility to a wide range of substrates with the aid of chemoselectivity make this present protocol more innovative than existing ones.

Fused furo- and pyrano-tetrahydropyrido[2,3-c]coumarin derivatives were synthesized using one-pot three component reactions between aromatic aldehydes, 3-aminocoumarins and cyclic enol ethers in the presence of 10 mol% hydrated ferric sulphate [Fe2(SO4)3·xH2O] in refluxing acetonitrile. The salient features of the present protocol are good yields, high diastereoselectivities, application to a wide range of substrates, using an inexpensive, readily available and recyclable catalyst and environmentally benign reaction conditions.