“…[1] Among these skeletons, substituent-diverse phthalazines represent an important structural motif commonly found in variety of natural products, pharmaceuticals, and other synthetics ( Figure 1). [2] Functional phthalazines have been found to exhibit a broad range of biological activities, such as anticonvulsant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, antimycobacterial, and antitumor, etc.. [3] With these significant bioactivities, great efforts have been made to develop many reliable chemical methods for the construction of fused and functionalized phthalazines, mainly relying on conventional acid/base-mediated strategies, [4] or transition metal catalysis. [5] Despite much effort, efficient and atom-economic protocols have not been established to assemble functionalized fused phthalazines, especially metal-free version.…”