Herein
we report the first catalytic decarbonylation and decarbonylative
hydroamination of formamides without using additives enabled by a
redox-neutral rare earth catalyst. The protocol displays complete N-aryl/alkenyl formamide-selectivity, thus providing a wide
variety of creative uses of the N-formylation and N-deformylation method and opening up new prospects for
minimizing waste and controlling the required selectivity in amine
transformation events.