Jagannath Rana, Virendrakumar Gupta and Ekambaram Balaraman
Dalton Trans., 2019,48, 7094-7099
DOI:
10.1039/C8DT05020A,
Communication
Herein we report an efficient manganese-catalyzed C-alkylation of unactivated amides and tert-butyl acetate using alcohols as alkylating agents. This elegant approach exhibits a broad substrate scope providing the C–C coupled products of amides via a hydrogen auto-transfer strategy using aryl, heteroaryl, and aliphatic alcohols.