“…Gold-catalyzed oxidative cyclizations have attracted enormous attention as a powerful and flexible tool for the construction of heterocyclic frameworks. , Therein, the facile alkyne oxidation by N -oxides to access α-oxo gold carbenes, avoiding hazardous diazo carbonyl compounds as carbene precursors, significantly expands the substrate scope and the synthetic potential of gold catalysis. , However, the published cyclization processes mostly involve intramolecular trapping of α-oxo gold carbenes by tethered nucleophiles . Currently, intermolecular cyclization patterns for α-oxo gold carbenes are still limited to the reaction with external N -, O -nucleophiles (i.e., nitriles and amides), leading to oxazole derivatives (Scheme A).…”