“…The key step of this approach is the addition of the pentavalent phosphorus nucleophile to imine formed in situ between aldehyde and primary amine. Similar methods are described [38] using variety of catalysts, Lewis acids, and others such as; TiO 2 [13], SnCl 4 [21], ZnCl 2 [39], Sn(OTf) 2 [12], Cu(OTf) 2 Á7H 2 O [14], BiNO 3 Á5H 2 O [8], BF 3 -SiO 2 [28], ZrOCl 2 Á8H 2 O or ZrO(ClO 4 ) 2 Á6H 2 O [7], Cp 2 Zr(OSO 2 C 4 F 9 ) 2 Á2H 2 O [22], Cd(ClO 4 ) 2 ÁH 2 O [10], CoCl 2 Á6H 2 O [18], Sulfamicacid [27], TsCl [16], Fe/SWCNTs [31], FeCl 3 [29], etc. In spite of their advantages, these methods show some flaws.…”