“…Due to their significance, numerous synthetic approaches have been developed for the construction of such structural motifs. These approaches could be categorized simply into three strategies on the basis of the ring-constructing method ( Figure 1 ), which are the heteroaryl ring formation (strategy a) [ 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 ], the central pyridyl ring formation (strategy b) [ 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 ], and the formation of both rings (strategy c) [ 4 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 ]. Although there are advantages and disadvantages to each strategy from various aspects, the strategy b seems to be the most user-friendly in terms of the accessibility of the starting substrates.…”