Recently, we reported that essentially "anhydrous hydroxide" was an excellent reagent for the hydrolysis of tertiary amides at ambient temperatures.1 This reagent was generated via the reaction of 2 equiv of potassium tert-butoxide with 1 equiv of water.2 Mechanistically, it appeared that the relatively unsolvated hydroxide added to the tertiary amide, 1, to produce 2. Removal of a hydroxylic proton from 2 would then produce the dianion, 3. Fragmentation of 3 then produced the most stable pair of anions, which in this case was 4 and 5. Utilizing this concept, a series of tertiary amides was

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2‐Naphthylamin (I) reagiert mit tert.‐Butylhypochlorit.