“…Imide- N -oxyl radicals proved to be useful H-atom abstracting agents due to the high activity, mild conditions of generation, and slow self-decay − compared with other O-centered radicals. Thus, precursors of such radicals, N -hydroxyimides (NHI), were successfully used as OH-reagents in cross-dehydrogenative C–O coupling with substrates containing benzyl, − allyl, , aldehyde, − ether , moieties, and even with cycloalkanes. , Nevertheless, the imide- N -oxyl radical-based approach found scant application in the oxidative C–O coupling employing the nonaldehyde carbonyl compounds, presumably due to the inertness of C–H bonds in α-position to the carbonyl group. The scope of such reactions was limited to the highly CH-acidic β-dicarbonyl compounds (Scheme , A) and the aryl alkyl ketones having a primary alkyl substituent (Scheme , B). ,, …”