A diastereoselective Mannich reaction has been developed for the construction of stereogenic C−F units by the reaction of α‐fluoro‐substituted amides, including highly activated 3‐fluoro‐oxindoles, and simple linear fluoroacetamides with N‐tert‐butylsulfinylimines. This method provides a concise route to a variety of structurally diverse α‐fluoro‐β‐amino amides containing stereogenic fluorinated carbon
A new bipiperidine-based manganese catalyst is introduced, which catalyzes the chemoselective benzylic oxidation of a wide range of diverse functionalized alkyl arenes with H2O2, affording various functionalized aryl ketones, cyclic imines, and bioactive molecules under mild conditions in a short time.