The palladium-catalyzed cyclization of simple olefinic amines, 1 tosylamides, 2 and carboxamides3 has proven to be a particularly valuable route to a wide variety of nitrogen heterocycles. For example, the cyclization of o-vinylic1d, h, 2b, f and o-allylic1cre, h anilines or their tosyl derivatives by either stoichiometric amounts of palladium (II) salts or catalytic amounts of palladium (II) salts in the presence of benzoquinone as a reoxidant efficiently ...