“…Among them, the most important and efficient approaches involve the use of electrophilic isatins/isatinimines and nucleophilic 3-monosubstituted oxindoles for the synthesis of 3,3′-disubstituted oxindoles ( Figure 1 ) [ 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 12 , 13 ]. Despite these advances, however, the use of indol-2-ones (generated in situ from 3-halooxindoles) as electrophiles has been limited [ 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 ].…”