“…The syntheses of these compounds have attracted much attention in industrial and academic research because of their biological and pharmaceutical properties. Recently, some excellent examples based on the direct sp 3 C-H bond activation adjacent to a nitrogen atom for C-C bond formations were reported by Murahashi et al (7), Murai and coworkers (8)(9)(10)(11), Ishii and coworkers (12), Sames and coworkers (13)(14)(15), Davies et al (16,17), Yoshimitsu et al (18), Yoshida and coworkers (19)(20)(21)(22), and Yi and coworkers (23). Although these are elegant methodologies, most of them required another functionalized substrate.…”