Organic Letters
Letter
Scheme 2. Substrate Scope for the Synthesis of 2-Amino-4H-
Notes
chromenes
The authors declare no competing financial interest.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We are grateful for the financial support from National Natural
Science Foundation of China (21372220 and 21532006).
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