A novel cobalt(II)porphyrin-mediated acceptorless dehydrogenation of methanol is reported for the first time. This methodology has been applied for the coupling of a variety of ketones with methanol to produce 1,5-diketones along with H2 and H2O as the environment friendly byproducts. This paradigm was also demonstrated for a one-pot synthesis of substitutedpyridines using a sequential addition protocol
p-Selective (sp2)-C-H functionalization of electron rich arenes have been achieved for acylation and alkylation reaction, respectively, with acyl/alkylselenides by organic photoredox catalysis involving interesting mechanistic pathway.