Triiodide-mediated C-H amination

David Nagib and co-workers from the Ohio State University have reported in ACIE on a triiodide mediated C-H amination reaction.

 

ACIE paper

Olefin difluorinations are in

Ryan Gilmour and colleague at Westfal̈ische Wilhelms-Universitaẗ Münster have reported in JACS on a difluorination of an olefin using p-iodotoluene, selectfluor, and various sources of amine-HF including TREAT-HF (triethylamine trihydrofluoride). They also try to expand on the transformation by making it asymmetric using a C2-symmetric chiral aryl iodide.

 

JACS paper

Olefin difluorination

Eric Jacobsen and co-workers reported in JACS on a difluorination of an olefin. They accomplished this transformation by using mCPBA (1.1 equivalent), HF-pyridine (100 equivalents of HF), and an aryl iodide derivative (catalyst).

 

JACS paper

α-Aminations via Nitrenoids

Takashi Ohshima and co-workers from Kyushu University reported in JACS on the use of hypervalent iodine to perform an N-H insertion

 

 

JACS paper

2 Reagents, 2 mechanisms, same product

Srinivasan Chandrasekaran and colleague at the Indian Institute of Science have reported in Tetrahedron on a mechanistically interesting transformation involving a geminal aminooxygenation of a vinyl arene. Two different reaction conditions were identified: one with m-CPBA, the other with a hypervalent iodine reagent. The former underwent a deuterium shift on the gem-dideuterated-styrene starting material and the latter does not.

Tetrahedron paper

ACIE Journals of Interest 11/24/2015

Hao Xu’s lab in University of Georgia have reported on an iron-catalyzed diazidation of olefins.

Dorian Didier’s lab from LMU Munich reported on an interesting one-pot reaction.

Xiaoguang Lei’s lab from Peking University reported on the structural revision of aspergillomarasmine A.

Kilian Muniz’s lab from ICIQ reported on a hypervalent iodine approach to form 1,2-diacetates from olefins, asymmetrically.

Radical cascade using hypervalent iodine

Xin-Hua Duan and co-workers from Xi’an Jiaotong University have reported in Organic Letters on a hypervalent iodine approach to accessing alkynylated ketones.

OL paper

Syn-1,3-carbonate access

Matthew Gaunt and colleague at the University of Cambridge have reported in ACIE on a method for the synthesis of syn-1,3-carbonates.

ACIE paper

Hypervalent iodine towards lactams

Antonio Herrera and co-workers from CSIC have reported in Organic Letters on a hypervalent iodine approach to access lactams from linear precursors.

OL paper

Trifluoromethylation with hypervalent iodine

Mikiko Sodeoka and co-workers from RIKEN have reported in JACS on a aminotrifluoromethylation of olefins using a hypervalent iodine reagent.

JACS paper