Copper‐Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative Coupling of Aryl Acetaldehydes with Anilines Leading to α‐Ketoamides

Efficient and practical: The title reaction provides an efficient route to α-ketoamides compounds, which are ubiquitous structural units in a number of biologically active compounds. N-substituted anilines are suitable substrates for this transformation. Two CH bonds as well as one CH and one NH bond are cleaved in this reaction. Molecular oxygen (1 atm) is used as the oxidant and the reaction involves dioxygen activation. Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.