A copper-catalyzed facile N-arylation of 2-acyl substituted anilines has been disclosed. Through chelation assistance of the weakly coordinating carbonyl groups, the ChanÀ EvansÀ Lam (CEL) CÀ N cross-coupling reactions pro-ceeded at room temperature in open flasks. Furthermore, such chelation effects also enabled the direct utilization of aryl boronic acid pinacol esters in Cu-catalyzed CEL reactions under mild conditions. the CEL couplings of ArBpin with aryl and alkyl amines, via the mediation of stoichiometric copper salts [9] (Scheme 1b). Then, elegant mechanistic exploration towards CEL reactions by the same group enabled utilization of additive B(OH) 3 , such modification resulted in a catalytic version of couplings between common ArBpin and aryl amines [10] (Scheme 1c). Despite such progress, in afore-mentioned Cu-catalyzed transformations, elevated temperature and O 2 atmosphere are generally necessary to achieve sufficient efficiency. Moreover, the ortho-substituted anilines have rarely been applied in the couplings with ArBpin species. This situation inspires further exploration towards complementary CEL protocols, which might offer customized solutions to the problems that are mentioned here and possible to arise later. Herein, we disclose our results of Cu-catalyzed CEL reactions with ArBpin at room temperature, through chelation assistance [11] of weakly coordinating ortho-carbonyl groups on aniline partners.