A Copper (II) Acetate Mediated Oxidative Coupling of Styrenes and Ethers Through an Unactivated C(sp 3 )ÀH Bond Functionalization A functionalization of unactivated C(sp 3 )-H bond of ethers with styrenes was described. This CÀC bond formation has been developed using t-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP) as a radical initiator and DBU as an additive agent. Typical ethers underwent a free-radical addition of styrenes to give direct difunctionalization products with excellent regioselectivity and efficiency. This reaction features good yields and functional group compatibility with simple operation and mild conditions. A plausible reaction mechanism has been proposed. DFT simulation and theory calculation also provided important evidence for the proposed freeradical mechanism.Transition metal catalyzed CÀH functionalization has received tremendous attention due to its step conven-ience, atom economy, and environmental benignness. [1] Especially in recent years, functionalization of unactivated C(sp 3 )ÀH bond has been considered as one of the most effective strategies in organic synthesis. [2] With broad applications in chemical industry, pharmaceutical, agriculture and its acquiring sources, alkenes and its derivatives perform various kinds of reactions with substrates bearing diverse functional groups, [3] such as ethers, [3a] amines, [3b] etc. Thus, difunctionalization reactions of alkene, such as diamination, [4] dihydroxylation, [5] hydroxyacetoxylation, [6] aminoacetoxylation [7] and several others [8] have been intensively investigated because these methods allow the rapid increase of molecular complexity in a highly efficient manner.To take advantages of the difunctionalization of styrenes, our group developed a series of new reactions through an oxidative free radical cross-coupling. [9] Our methods were achieved by metal catalysts and simple operations which make the reaction easy to control. Several typical substrates namely alcohol, [9a] ketone [9b] and nitrile [9c] were reported. Herein, we would like to report a Cu(OAc) 2 catalyzed direct oxidative coupling of styrenes with ethers via C(sp 3 )ÀH bond functionalization (Scheme 1). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of the COMMUNICATIONS