Difluorination using hypervalent iodine

Kálmán J. Szabó and co-workers from Stockholm University have reported in ACIE on a difluorination of styrene using a hypervalent iodide reagent.

ACIE paper

Phenolic coupling for morphine

Matthew Gaunt and co-workers from the University of Cambridge have reported in ACIE on the formal synthesis of morphine through an oxidative phenolic coupling.

ACIE paper

Aspeverin synthesis

Adam Levinson at Sloan Kettering has reported in Organic Letters on the synthesis of aspeverin. Interestingly, Danishefsky was acknowledged for the mentorship but not included in the authors list. I wonder if this is a new kind of way to publish.

OL paper

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