“…Among them, five-, six-, and seven-membered benzosultams are particularly important, and some of them, such as melodica, picrotoxic, and tianeptine, have already been booming in the pharmaceutical market (Figure ). There are a number of approaches available for the synthesis of benzosultams, mainly including intramolecular transition-metal (TM)-catalyzed or stoichiometric hypervalent iodine-mediated C–H amination, intramolecular TM-catalyzed cross-coupling, and intermolecular annulation reactions of aryl sulfonamides with alkynes, alkenes, or other two-carbon synthons . These strategies offer efficient access to benzosultams; however, they more or less suffer from some limitations such as harsh reaction conditions, the use of stoichiometric oxidants, or the use of harmful and expensive TM catalysts.…”