Imide arylation with aryl(TMP)iodonium tosylates

• Souradeep Basu,
• Alexander H. Sandtorv and
• David R. Stuart

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1034–1038, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.90

• -deficient and sterically encumbered aryl groups. Keywords: arylation; C–N coupling; diaryliodonium; hypercoordinate iodine; metal-free; Introduction Imides are important structural units in a range of approved pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals (Scheme 1a) [1]. Despite the general prevalence of imides, N