Direct comparisons with recent literature. Direct comparisons with the current, state-of-the-art procedures for the aminations of phenol-derived electrophiles were also made. Aminations arriving at products 34-38 indicate that the catalytic system described here based on the oxidative addition complex OAC-1, in general, appears to be more effective than the other systems (Scheme 9). That is aminations occur at lower catalyst loadings, take place in predominantly aqueous micellar media, and lead to typically far faster couplings than the corresponding reactions in organic solvents. The same is the case even when using an alternative OAC (see entry 5). Moreover, yields tend to be comparable, if not higher, than those reported previously. The commercial availability of the Pd dimer precursor and BippyPhos, 49b along with the sheer simplicity of the synthesis of OAC-1 suggest that this system offers many advantages that were previously unavailable.