“…1(2) Cs 2 CO 3 (10) 24 61 29 8 [c] 1 (2) Cs 2 CO 3 (10) 24 74 20 9 [c] 2 (2) Cs 2 CO 3 (10) 24 44 10 10 [c,d] 1 (2) Cs 2 CO 3 (10) 24 80 6 11 [c,e] Entry t [h] NMR-yield [b] (Isolated) [c] 5 [%] alcohol derivatives.C onsequently,a lcohols with both electron-donating (Table 2, entries 11, 12, 16) and electron-withdrawing substituents ( Table 2, entries 13 -15, 21) gave the corresponding a-alkylated ketones in 51-62 %y ields of isolated product. Furthermore,b io-based and synthetically more interesting alcohols such as butan-1-ol and 3-phenylpropan-1-ol could be used, and led to the corresponding ketones in 55 and 42 %y ields of isolated products,r espectively ( Table 2, entries [19][20]. Methanol was unfortunately not suitable for this transformation, probably owing to the more difficult dehydrogenation reaction of this alcohol.…”