NIS‐Catalyzed Oxidative Cyclization of Alcohols with Amidines: A Simple and Efficient Transition‐Metal Free Method for the Synthesis of 1,3,5‐Triazines.

A wide range of 1,3,5-triazines is efficiently synthesized via the title reaction of amidines (I) with benzyl alcohols under mild transition-metal and phosphine free conditions without the need of oxygen in good yields.