A new silver-catalyzed oxidative ring opening of cyclopropanols to functionalize alkenes of N-arylacrylamides leading to 3,3'-disubstituted oxindoles has been developed. This reaction is proposed to proceed through oxidative radical ring-opening and C-H functionalization cascade process under the mild reaction conditions with good functional groups tolerance.
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