Cascade oxidation/Knoevenagel condensation of different benzyl alcohols 2a–f catalyzed by the Cu@EDTAD-PMO (1) under optimized conditions^a.

Entry	Substrate 2	Product	Time (h)	Yield (%)
1			6	95
2			10	90
3			16	86
4			13	78
5			10	85
6			15	88
7			8	91

^aReaction conditions: benzyl alcohol (2, 1 mmol), TBHP (1 mmol), and Cu@EDTAD-PMO (1, 4.2 mol%) were added into CH₃CN (2 mL) and stirred at 50 °C. Then, malononitrile (3, 1.1 mmol) was added to the reaction mixture.