Hypervalent iodine promoted aryl shift

Thomas Wirth and co-workers at Cardiff University have reported in ACIE on a hypervalent iodine reagent promoted migration of an aryl group.

ACIE paper

Trifluoromethylation with hypervalent iodide

Zhiqiang Weng and co-workers from Fuzhou University have reported in Tetrahedron on the use of a hypervalent iodide to introduce a trifluoromethyl group on the terminal position of an alkyne.

Tetrahedron paper

Chiral Hypervalent Iodide

Morifumi Fujita and co-workers at the University of Hyogo have reported in Organic Letters on the use of a chiral hypervalent iodine reagent

OL paper

Oxyamination

Thomas Wirth and co-worker from Cardiff University have reported in ACIEE on the use of hypervalent iodine to effect an oxyamination.

ACIEE paper

Welwitindolinone C syntheses

The Rawal and Garg groups published in JACS independently on their syntheses of welwitindolinone C back to back…Garg’s group used a deuterium isotope effect to improve the selectivity in the key C-N bond forming reaction.

JACS paper

JACS paper

Acyloxylation with gold

Veronique Michelet and co-workers at CNRS have reported in JACS on a gold catalyzed C-H activation process.

JACS paper

Olefin oxidation with iodosyl benzene

Jose Barluenga and co-workers from the Universidad de Oviedo have reported in JACS on an iodosyl benzene mediated oxidation of an olefin to afford beta-diazocarbonyl compounds.

JACS paper

Oxidative Prins-pinacol

Sylvain Canesi and co-workers at Université du Québec à Montréal have reported in JOC on an oxidative Prins-pinacol approach towards platensimycin.

JOC paper

Cycloheptenes using PIFA

Siegfried Waldvogel and co-workers at the University of Bonn have reported in European JOC on a hypervalent iodine mediated cyclization.

European JOC paper

Decursivine via cascade

Chaozhong Li and co-workers from the University of Science and Technology in China have reported in Organic Letters on their cascade oxidation approach using PIFA (phenyliodine bis(trifluoroacetate)) to access decursivine.

OL paper