The broad scope of this method for the synthesis of hydroxy ketones makes it a useful alternative approach to traditional syntheses such as aldol reactions or oxidations. As chlorinated solvents are often undesirable from an environmental perspective, we examined the reactions in alternative solvents. Pleasingly, the hydroamination/hydrolysis reaction could also be performed efficiently in acetonitrile, fluorobenzene, dimethyl carbonate, toluene or ethyl acetate Finally, we also sought to develop conditions to access the 3-aminoketone, which was identified as a minor product in our original experiment (Scheme 5). We hypothesized that its formation was due to Meyer Schuster rearrangement of the propargylic alcohol, followed by conjugate addition of the aniline to the resulting enone. To selectively form the 3-aminoketone, we changed the solvent to a mixture of toluene:MeOH (100:1) which is established to promote gold-catalyzed Meyer-Schuster rearrangement, and then added the aniline to the reaction mixture once the enone had been produced. Interestingly, the gold catalyst is involved in both steps of the reacton, as it was observed to catalyze the Michael addition of the aniline to the enone (See Supporting Info), with a particularly significant effect in the case of less-nucleophilic anilines.