Dedicated to Professor Xiyan Lu on the occasion of his 80th birthdayTransition-metal-catalyzed aryl C sp2 ÀN bond formation has been intensively studied over the past decade because of the importance of the amines and their derivatives in chemistry related fields.[1-9] The Pd-or Cu-catalyzed formation of anilines from electrophilic aryl halides and nucleophilic primary or secondary amines, pioneered by Buchwald and co-workers and Louie and Hartwig, as well as others, [10][11][12][13][14] is a hallmark reaction in this field. In 1998, Chan et al., Evans et al., and Lam et al. independently developed Cu-mediated oxidative amination of nucleophilic arylboronic acids with amines or other nucleophiles, [16][17][18][19][20] and the methods were later improved to include catalytic versions. [15,17,21,22] However, electrophilic amination of organometallic reagents by R 1 R 2 N + synthons, [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] though conceptually feasible, has received much less attention. [32][33][34][35][36][37] The putative catalytic cycle of this transformation is illustrated in Scheme 1: (1) reaction of R 1 R 2 N À X (as an electrophile) with the metal catalyst (M 1 ) would introduce the amine group to the metal center to form R 1 R 2 N-M 1 -X; [34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48] (2) transmetalation of RM 2 (M 2 = B(OH) 2 ) with R 1 R 2 N-M 1 -X to furnish R 1 R 2 N-M 1 R; and (3) final reductive elimination to form the CÀN bond.The groups of Liebeskind and Johnson have studied this type of CÀN bond formation employing NÀO derivatives. [32][33][34][35][36][37] N-Chloroamides, though attractive because of the ease of preparation [49][50][51] and the high activities of the N À Cl bond, [23,50,51] have seldom been utilized in catalytic electrophilic amination reactions. To the best of our knowledge, Göttlich et al. has primarily studied the Cu-mediated reaction of N-chloroamines with alkenes. [38,39,52] Herein, we communicate our results regarding ligandless copper-catalyzed electrophilic amination of arylboronic acids by N-chloroamides under mild conditions.Our initial experiments of N-chloro-N-phenylacetamide [49] (1 a) and phenylboronic acid (2 a) were carried out by using palladium catalysts. In all attempts, biphenyl was formed instead of the desired N-arylation product (3 a).