“…In the past 3 years, owing to its prominent physical and chemical property like outstanding stability, nontoxicity, nonvolatility, odorlessness, ready availability, and extremely cheap price, * sulfamic acid (SA) has increasingly attracted much attention as an alternative acidic catalyst in some heterogeneously catalytic reactions like acetalization [25], esterification [26], acetylation of alcohols and phenols [27], nitrile formation [28], tetrahydropyranylation of alcohols [29], transesterification of β-ketoesters [30], acetolysis of cyclic ethers [31], protection of carbonyls [32], Biginelli [33] and Pechmann condensation [34], Bechmann rearrangement [35], imino-Diels-Alder reaction [36], synthesis of quinolines [37], benzoxanthenes [38], bis(indolyl)methanes [39], and so on. However, there is no report in the literature on the utilization of SA in the synthesis of benzodiazepines via the cyclization of o-phenylenediamine and ketones.…”