“…Although reductive aminationo fd iarylketones [4] and nucleophilic addition of organometallic reagents to aldimines [5] are potential alternatives, these methods are not effective for secondary amines due to slow formation of iminium intermediates. [6] To address these challenges, new synthetic routesh ave been developed using transition-metal catalyzed cross-coupling, [7,8] reductivec oupling, [9] and CÀHa mination reactions [10] Recently,D oyle reported an elegant Ni-catalyzed three-component coupling of benzaldehydes, arylhalides, and N-silylamines to afford unsymmetrical benzhydryl amines. [11] In this communication, we describe an ew synthetic approacht ot hese im-portant structures that does not require the use of anys ensitive reagents or the multistep preparation of the benzhydryl precursors.…”