An efficient and eco-friendly protocol for synthesizing difluoromethylated oxindoles through a visiblelight induced one-pot tandem reaction of N-arylacrylamides, difluoroacetic acid and Ph I(OAc)2 was developed. This reaction proceeded in the absence of any additive, base, metal-catalyst and external photosensitizer, using cheap and easily available CHF2CO2H as the difluoromethylation reagent and bulk biomass-derived 2-Me THF as the sole solvent. 26 Examples of N-arylacrylamide substrates were investigated, and all of them successfully underwent difluoromet...