Cleavage of benzyl group from alkane? Is there a method to selectively cleave the C-C bond between a benzyl group (-CH2Ph) and a linear or cyclic alkane? Can this be done under standard conditions with somewhat widely available reagents? Can the benzyl group be forced out if it is under significant steric clash when it is attached?
The following is just a mind game: 


Oxidize at the benzylic position to get an arylketone using oxone
Convert the ketone to an ester by Baeyer-Villiger reaction
Cleave the ester
Run a Barton-McCombie deoxygenation on the resulting alkanol


Please note that I havent't done it and I'm not planning to. I'd rather try to avoid the benzyl group in the starting material if possible.