Rapid transformation of sulfinate salts into sulfonates promoted by a hypervalent iodine(III) reagent

• Elsa Deruer,
• Vincent Hamel,
• Samuel Blais and
• Sylvain Canesi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1203–1207, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.101

• hypervalent iodine(III) reagent-mediated oxidation of sodium sulfinates has been developed. This transformation involves trapping reactive sulfonium species using alcohols. With additional optimization of the reaction conditions, the method appears extendable to other nucleophiles such as electron-rich

• aromatic systems or cyclic ethers through a ring opening pathway. Keywords: hypervalent iodine; oxidation; sulfinates; sulfonation; sulfonium; Introduction Over the past few decades, hypervalent iodine reagents [1][2][3][4] have emerged as versatile and environmentally benign substitutes for heavy metal

• the alcohol. In this paper, we demonstrate that sulfonates may be produced from alcohols in the presence of sufinates through a reaction mediated by a hypervalent iodine reagent. Under these conditions, the byproduct is a weak acid such as acetic acid rather than hydrochloric acid. Results and

One hundred years of benzotropone chemistry

• Arif Dastan,
• Haydar Kilic and
• Nurullah Saracoglu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1120–1180, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.98

• repeated the synthesis of 12 through a molecular bromination–dehydrobromination sequence starting with 162 [137]. Hypervalent iodine(V)-based reagents such as IBX (or 2-iodoxybenzoic acid) and Dess–Martin periodinane (DMP) are commonly used in organic synthesis as oxidizing agent to form both unsaturated

Recyclable hypervalent-iodine-mediated solid-phase peptide synthesis and cyclic peptide synthesis

• Dan Liu,
• Ya-Li Guo,
• Jin Qu and
• Chi Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1112–1119, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.97

• Dan Liu Ya-Li Guo Jin Qu Chi Zhang State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China 10.3762/bjoc.14.97 Abstract The system of the hypervalent iodine(III

• worth noting that FPID can be readily regenerated after the peptide coupling reaction. Keywords: cyclic peptide; FPID; hypervalent iodine(III) reagent; recyclable; solid-phase peptide synthesis (SPPS); Introduction The amide bond is one of the most fundamental functional groups in organic chemistry

• . Hypervalent iodine reagents have drawn researchers’ considerable attentions due to their versatile reactivity, low toxicity, ready availability, environmental friendliness, and regenerability [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]. Our group has dedicated to the peptide synthesis

Iodine(III)-mediated halogenations of acyclic monoterpenoids

• Laure Peilleron,
• Tatyana D. Grayfer,
• Joëlle Dubois,
• Robert H. Dodd and
• Kevin Cariou

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1103–1111, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.96

• halofunctionalizations of acyclic monoterpenoids were performed using a combination of a hypervalent iodine(III) reagent and a halide salt. In this manner, the dibromination, the bromo(trifluoro)acetoxylation, the bromohydroxylation, the iodo(trifluoro)acetoxylation or the ene-type chlorination of the distal

• trisubstituted double bond occurred with excellent selectivity and moderate to good yields. Keywords: halogenation; hypervalent iodine; monoterpenes; Introduction In nature, mostly in marine environments, halogenated compounds are produced by means of various enzymes that rely on widely available halides as

• halogenations with increased selectivity. In this regard, hypervalent iodine reagents [6] have emerged as particularly versatile mediators [7][8][9][10]. We have shown that electrophilic halogenations [11][12][13], or pseudohalogenations [14] can be triggered by combining an iodine(III) derivative with a

Selective carboxylation of reactive benzylic C–H bonds by a hypervalent iodine(III)/inorganic bromide oxidation system

• Toshifumi Dohi,
• Shohei Ueda,
• Kosuke Iwasaki,
• Yusuke Tsunoda,
• Koji Morimoto and
• Yasuyuki Kita

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1087–1094, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.94

• , reports aimed at realizing efficient and selective metal-free C(sp3)–H transformations are rather limited; however, investigations by several research groups are still ongoing [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]. Hypervalent iodine reagents are now widely accepted as a safe

• oxidations was recognized for displaying the new reactivities of hypervalent iodine reagents toward C(sp3)–H bonds [38][39]. By exploiting the radical behavior of trivalent iodine reagents discovered previously [40][41], the activation of trivalent iodine reagents, e.g., phenyliodine(III) diacetate (PIDA

• aqueous benzylic oxidations using polymeric iodosobenzene in the presence of inorganic bromide and montmorillonite-K10 [51]. In addition, a radical C–H activation strategy, using nonaqueous hypervalent iodine(III)/inorganic bromide systems that can work in organic solvents, was developed for the novel

Hypervalent iodine(III)-mediated decarboxylative acetoxylation at tertiary and benzylic carbon centers

• Kensuke Kiyokawa,
• Daichi Okumatsu and
• Satoshi Minakata

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1046–1050, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.92

• . Keywords: acetoxylation; carboxylic acids; decarboxylation; hypervalent iodine; iodine; Introduction The decarboxylative functionalization of carboxylic acids and the derivatives thereof is an important transformation in organic synthesis. In recent years, increasing efforts have been devoted to the

• formed, and the starting material was recovered. These results strongly support a reaction pathway involving the formation of an alkyl iodide, which is oxidized by PhI(OAc)2 to the corresponding hypervalent iodine(III) species that then undergoes acetoxylation. Based on the experimental results and our

Hypervalent iodine-guided electrophilic substitution: para-selective substitution across aryl iodonium compounds with benzyl groups

• Cyrus Mowdawalla,
• Faiz Ahmed,
• Tian Li,
• Kiet Pham,
• Loma Dave,
• Grace Kim and
• I. F. Dempsey Hyatt

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1039–1045, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.91

• Cyrus Mowdawalla Faiz Ahmed Tian Li Kiet Pham Loma Dave Grace Kim I. F. Dempsey Hyatt Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Adelphi University, 1 South Ave., Garden City, NY, 11530, USA 10.3762/bjoc.14.91 Abstract The reactivity of benzyl hypervalent iodine intermediates was explored in

• congruence with the reductive iodonio-Claisen rearrangement (RICR) to show that there may be an underlying mechanism which expands the reasoning behind the previously known C–C bond-forming reaction. By rationalizing the hypervalent iodine’s metal-like properties it was concluded that a transmetallation

• mechanism could be occurring with metalloid groups such as silicon and boron. Hypervalent iodine reagents such as Zefirov’s reagent, cyclic iodonium reagents, iodosobenzene/BF3, and PhI(OAc)2/BF3 or triflate-based activators were tested. A desirable facet of the reported reaction is that iodine(I) is

Hypervalent iodine-mediated Ritter-type amidation of terminal alkenes: The synthesis of isoxazoline and pyrazoline cores

• Sang Won Park,
• Soong-Hyun Kim,
• Jaeyoung Song,
• Ga Young Park,
• Darong Kim,
• Tae-Gyu Nam and
• Ki Bum Hong

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1028–1033, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.89

• Innovation Foundation (DGMIF), 80 Cheombok-ro, Dong-gu, Daegu, Republic of Korea 10.3762/bjoc.14.89 Abstract Hypervalent iodine-mediated olefin functionalization provides a rapid gateway towards accessing both various heterocyclic cores and functional groups. In this regard, we have developed a Ritter-type

• . Keywords: amido-amidation; hypervalent iodine; isoxazoline; metal-free; oxyamidation; pyrazoline; Introduction Isoxazoline and pyrazoline-containing heterocycles are abundant in natural products and biologically active molecules [1][2][3][4][5]. Thus, these scaffolds are also important from the standpoint

• , diverse halonium sources have been utilized for the synthesis of isoxazolines via halocyclization. Furthermore, transition metal-, visible light, and hypervalent iodine-mediated oxidative cyclization protocols provide isoxazoline backbones bearing diverse substituents such as –SR, -CF3, -OH and halogens

Fluorocyclisation via I(I)/I(III) catalysis: a concise route to fluorinated oxazolines

• Felix Scheidt,
• Christian Thiehoff,
• Gülay Yilmaz,
• Stephanie Meyer,
• Constantin G. Daniliuc,
• Gerald Kehr and
• Ryan Gilmour

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1021–1027, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.88

• ; cyclisation; fluorination; gauche effect; hypervalent iodine; oxazolines; Introduction Marine and terrestrial natural product bioprospecting has established a broad spectrum of structurally complex, bioactive metabolites containing the venerable 2-oxazoline unit [1][2]. This diversity is exemplified by the

Preparation, structure, and reactivity of bicyclic benziodazole: a new hypervalent iodine heterocycle

• Akira Yoshimura,
• Michael T. Shea,
• Cody L. Makitalo,
• Melissa E. Jarvi,
• Gregory T. Rohde,
• Akio Saito,
• Mekhman S. Yusubov and
• Viktor V. Zhdankin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1016–1020, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.87

• ; biheterocycles; hypervalent iodine; iodine; oxidatively assisted esterification; Introduction In recent years, the interest in heterocyclic organohypervalent iodine compounds has experienced an unprecedented growth [1][2][3][4][5][6]. A variety of new hypervalent iodine heterocycles have been prepared, and

• numerous reactions employing these compounds as reagents for organic synthesis have been reported. The benziodoxole-based five-membered iodine heterocycles represent a particularly important class of hypervalent iodine(III) reagents. Substituted benziodoxoles 1 (Scheme 1a) are commonly employed as

• and peptides [23][24][25]. Numerous examples of five-membered hypervalent iodine(III) heterocycles containing other than oxygen heteroatoms, such as sulfur [26], boron [27][28], phosphorous [29], or nitrogen [30][31][32], have been synthesized and characterized by X-ray crystallography. In particular

Cross-coupling of dissimilar ketone enolates via enolonium species to afford non-symmetrical 1,4-diketones

• Keshaba N. Parida,
• Gulab K. Pathe,
• Shimon Maksymenko and
• Alex M. Szpilman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 992–997, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.84

• of enolates may be used to form the 1,4-diketone products in 38 to 74% yield. Due to the use of two TMS enol ethers as precursors, an optimization of the cross-coupling should include investigating the order of addition. Keywords: 1,4-diketones; enolates; enolonium species; hypervalent iodine

• -coupling by using cerium(IV) as a one-electron oxidant [11]. Importantly for the discussion of the present work, Wirth’s strategy relied on a hypervalent iodine [13][14][15] mediated oxidative cross-coupling. Although these processes add a further step to the process, carrying out the cross-coupling in an

2-Iodo-N-isopropyl-5-methoxybenzamide as a highly reactive and environmentally benign catalyst for alcohol oxidation

• Takayuki Yakura,
• Tomoya Fujiwara,
• Akihiro Yamada and
• Hisanori Nambu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 971–978, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.82

• derivative at room temperature is a result of the rapid generation of the pentavalent species from the trivalent species during the reaction. 5-Methoxy-2-iodobenzamide would be an efficient and environmentally benign catalyst for the oxidation of alcohols, especially benzylic alcohols. Keywords: hypervalent

• fundamental and frequently used transformation in organic synthesis. Heavy metal-based oxidants such as chromium(VI), lead(IV), and mercury(II) have been extensively used for this purpose for a long time. However, these oxidants are highly toxic and produce hazardous waste. Recently, hypervalent iodine

• iodobenzene and 4-iodobenzenesulfonic acid (12) as catalysts [58][59]. As part of our study on the development of multifunctionalized organocatalysts based on hypervalent iodine chemistry [60][61][62][63][64][65][66], we found that N-isopropyl-2-iodobenzamide (13), when utilized as a catalyst with Oxone® at

One-pot synthesis of diaryliodonium salts from arenes and aryl iodides with Oxone–sulfuric acid

• Natalia Soldatova,
• Pavel Postnikov,
• Olga Kukurina,
• Viktor V. Zhdankin,
• Akira Yoshimura,
• Thomas Wirth and
• Mekhman S. Yusubov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 849–855, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.70

• Diaryliodonium salts, which are also known as diaryl-λ3-iodanes, are widely considered to be an important and practically useful class of hypervalent iodine compounds [1][2][3][4]. Diaryliodonium salts have found broad synthetic application as electrophilic arylating reagents in reactions with various

• based on the use of inexpensive, commercially available oxidants is an important and challenging goal. A vast majority of existing procedures involve the interaction of electrophilic hypervalent iodine(III) species with suitable arenes through ligand exchange processes [16][17][18][19][20]. The reactive

• hypervalent iodine(III) species can be used as stable reagents or can be generated in situ [21][22][23][24][25]. In particular, Olofsson and co-workers reported procedures based on the in situ generation of reactive λ3-iodane species directly from arenes, which was a significant achievement in this field [26

Chlorination of phenylallene derivatives with 1-chloro-1,2-benziodoxol-3-one: synthesis of vicinal-dichlorides and chlorodienes

• Zhensheng Zhao and
• Graham K. Murphy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 796–802, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.67

• regioselective reaction of aryl- and α-substituted phenylallenes with the hypervalent iodine (HVI) reagent 1-chloro-1,2-benziodoxol-3-one. The reaction typically results in vicinal dichlorides, except with proton-containing α-alkyl substituents, which instead give chlorinated dienes as the major product

• . Experimental evidence suggests that a radical mechanism is involved. Keywords: allene; chlorination; hypervalent iodine; synthetic methods; vinyl chloride; Introduction Organochlorine compounds are vital as polymer precursors [1], as pharmaceuticals [2][3] and agrochemicals [4][5][6] and as functional

• vicinal-dichlorination of phenylallenes; however, no such chlorination reaction has yet been achieved [29][30][31][32][33][34]. Recent reports of reactions between hypervalent iodine reagents and phenylallenes have highlighted the possible product outcomes achievable through ionic and radical reaction

Enantioselective dioxytosylation of styrenes using lactate-based chiral hypervalent iodine(III)

• Morifumi Fujita,
• Koki Miura and
• Takashi Sugimura

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 659–663, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.53

• Morifumi Fujita Koki Miura Takashi Sugimura Graduate School of Material Science, University of Hyogo, Kohto, Kamigori, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan 10.3762/bjoc.14.53 Abstract A series of optically active hypervalent iodine(III) reagents prepared from the corresponding (R)-2-(2-iodophenoxy)propanoate

• derivative was employed for the asymmetric dioxytosylation of styrene and its derivatives. The electrophilic addition of the hypervalent iodine(III) compound toward styrene proceeded with high enantioface selectivity to give 1-aryl-1,2-di(tosyloxy)ethane with an enantiomeric excess of 70–96% of the (S

• )-isomer. Keywords: 1,2-difunctionalization of alkenes; enantioselective synthesis; hypervalent iodine; oxidation; Findings Hypervalent aryl-λ3-iodanes have been widely used for metal-free oxidation with high selectivity in organic synthesis [1][2][3]. The reactivity of an aryl-λ3-iodane is controlled by

Synthesis of fluoro-functionalized diaryl-λ³-iodonium salts and their cytotoxicity against human lymphoma U937 cells

• Prajwalita Das,
• Etsuko Tokunaga,
• Hidehiko Akiyama,
• Hiroki Doi,
• Norimichi Saito and
• Norio Shibata

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 364–372, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.24

• )phenyl)iodonium exhibited the greatest potency in vitro against U937 cells. Evaluation of the cytotoxicity of selected phenylaryl-λ3-iodonium salts against AGLCL (a normal human B cell line) was also examined. Keywords: biological activity; diaryliodonium salt; fluorine; hypervalent iodine; lymphoma

• compounds in the pharmaceutical history indicates that some of these reagents have a heterocyclic skeleton which makes them suitable as drug candidates [29][30][31][32]. Among these compounds, our group is interested in investigating the biological activity of hypervalent iodine-type reagents [33

• ]. Hypervalent iodine compounds have been receiving a lot of attention lately due to their varied applications in organic synthesis [33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40]. A wide range of bioactive compounds make use of diaryliodonium reagents as a part of their synthesis [41][42][43]. On the other hand, there are

Diels–Alder cycloadditions of N-arylpyrroles via aryne intermediates using diaryliodonium salts

• Huangguan Chen,
• Jianwei Han and
• Limin Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 354–363, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.23

• coupling for pyrroles using a hypervalent iodine reagent and a stabilizer for pyrrolyliodonium intermediates (Scheme 1c) [9]. The reactions readily provided a variety of desired coupling products in good yields. In general, the mechanism of these arylations was postulated by generating aryl radicals with

Progress in copper-catalyzed trifluoromethylation

• Guan-bao Li,
• Chao Zhang,
• Chun Song and
• Yu-dao Ma

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 155–181, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.11

• -membered-ring transition state. Note that the presence of an olefin moiety in the product promised further conversion to other types of CF3-containing molecules. Later, the group of Wang [50] employed cheap copper chloride as the catalyst and a hypervalent iodine(III) reagent 1j as both the oxidant and the

CF₃SO₂X (X = Na, Cl) as reagents for trifluoromethylation, trifluoromethylsulfenyl-, -sulfinyl- and -sulfonylation and chlorination. Part 2: Use of CF₃SO₂Cl

• Hélène Chachignon,
• Hélène Guyon and
• Dominique Cahard

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2800–2818, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.273

• -cyanotrifluoromethylations [22] of alkenes under photoredox catalysis. These reactions proceeded through a formyl or a cyano group migration triggered by the addition of the trifluoromethyl radical onto the alkene moiety. Both methodologies were developed using Togni’s hypervalent iodine reagent as the CF3 source, but it

• introduction of the CF3 moiety on enol acetates (Scheme 29) [37]. Anecdotally, CF3SO2Cl was evaluated for the trifluoromethylation of allylsilanes, but, disappointingly, gave lower yields than Togni’s hypervalent iodine reagent [38]. More recently, Balaraman and co-workers studied extensively the reaction of β

CF₃SO₂X (X = Na, Cl) as reagents for trifluoromethylation, trifluoromethylsulfenyl-, -sulfinyl- and -sulfonylation. Part 1: Use of CF₃SO₂Na

• Hélène Guyon,
• Hélène Chachignon and
• Dominique Cahard

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2764–2799, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.272

• , CF3H, as an ideal source of trifluoromethide offered new horizons for atom-economical, low-cost trifluoromethylation reactions. With regard to electrophilic CF3 donors, S-(trifluoromethyl)sulfonium salts developed by Yagupolskii and Umemoto and hypervalent iodine(III)-CF3 reagents developed by Togni

• reactions with K2S2O8, I2O5 or a hypervalent iodine reagent, and (iii) photochemical activation. Most of the works concerned cascade intramolecular reactions in which a C–C bond is formed after the initial trifluoromethylation. Therefore, Lipshutz and co-workers reported a copper-catalysed intramolecular

• persulfate by hypervalent iodine oxidants such as iodobenzene diacetate (PIDA, Scheme 28) [49], or iodobenzene bis(trifluoroacetate) (PIFA) [50]. Fu and co-workers proposed the reaction mechanism depicted in Scheme 28. PIDA reacted with CF3SO2Na under heating conditions to produce two radicals: CF3• along

One-pot three-component route for the synthesis of S-trifluoromethyl dithiocarbamates using Togni’s reagent

• Azim Ziyaei Halimehjani,
• Martin Dračínský and
• Petr Beier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2502–2508, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.247

• been reported to introduce the trifluoromethyl group in organic structures including nucleophilic, electrophilic, radical and transition metal-mediated trifluoromethylations. Among the electrophilic trifluoromethylation methods, reagents based on hypervalent iodine (Togni's reagents I and II, Scheme 1b

• Discussion We started our investigation with a one-pot, three-component reaction of piperidine, CS2, and a cyclic hypervalent iodane (Togni's reagent I) as a model reaction to find the optimal reaction conditions for the preparation of S-trifluoromethyl dithiocarbamates (Table 1). In the first run, we

Syntheses, structures, and stabilities of aliphatic and aromatic fluorous iodine(I) and iodine(III) compounds: the role of iodine Lewis basicity

• Tathagata Mukherjee,
• Soumik Biswas,
• Andreas Ehnbom,
• Subrata K. Ghosh,
• Ibrahim El-Zoghbi,
• Nattamai Bhuvanesh,
• Hassan S. Bazzi and
• John A. Gladysz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2486–2501, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.246

• probed by DFT calculations. Keywords: chlorination; copper mediated perfluoroalkylation; crystal structure; DFT calculations; fluorous; hypervalent iodine; nucleophilic substitution; polar space group; Introduction A number of fluorous alkyl iodides, usually of the formula RfnCH2CH2I or RfnI (Rfn = CF3

• to alkenes [7][8]. In previous papers, we have reported convenient preparations of a variety of fluorous alkyl iodides [13][14][15], aryl iodides [16][17], and hypervalent iodine(III) derivatives [16][17][18][19]. The latter have included aliphatic iodine(III) bis(trifluoroacetates) [18][19] and

Difunctionalization of alkenes with iodine and tert-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP) at room temperature for the synthesis of 1-(tert-butylperoxy)-2-iodoethanes

• Hao Wang,
• Cui Chen,
• Weibing Liu and
• Zhibo Zhu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2023–2027, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.200

• light [19][20], hypervalent iodine reagents [21][22], acids [23], organoammonium iodides [24] and iodine [25]. These catalysts are often employed in combination with a peroxide and generally produce an organoperoxide. Organic peroxides are important and useful compounds because of their unique chemical

Iodoarene-catalyzed cyclizations of N-propargylamides and β-amidoketones: synthesis of 2-oxazolines

• Somaia Kamouka and
• Wesley J. Moran

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1823–1827, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.177

• cyclization of N-propargylamides and the second involves the cyclization of β-amidoketones. These are proposed to proceed through different mechanisms and have different substrate scopes. Keywords: amides; catalysis; cyclization; hypervalent iodine; isoxazolines; Introduction Hypervalent iodine reagents are

• ][26][27][28][29]. Saito and co-workers have reported the cyclization of propargylamides to form oxazoles rather than oxazolines under stoichiometric and, more recently, catalytic hypervalent iodine conditions [30][31]. Various other methods for the cyclization of unsaturated amides have been reported

• of hypervalent iodine in catalytic procedures. Studies concerning the elucidation of reaction mechanisms are ongoing and will be reported in due course. Experimental General procedure for 2-iodoanisole-catalyzed cyclization of N-propargylamide 4 or β-amidoketone 5: Propargylamide 4 (1 equiv) or β

Chiral phase-transfer catalysis in the asymmetric α-heterofunctionalization of prochiral nucleophiles

• Johannes Schörgenhumer,
• Maximilian Tiffner and
• Mario Waser

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1753–1769, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.170

• investigated the phase-transfer catalysed α-cyanation of ketoesters 1 using hypervalent iodine-based cyanide transfer reagents [97]. Hereby we observed the in situ oxidation of the PTC counter anions (Br− or I−) and subsequent α-halogenation of 1. We tried to employ and optimise this procedure, but without any

• alkaloid-based organocatalysts to carry out the α-trifluoromethylthiolation of β-ketoesters 1 by using the hypervalent iodine-based CF3S-transfer reagent 36 in an asymmetric fashion. Very interestingly, they realized that for indanone-based ketoesters 1 (with n = 1) simple cinchona alkaloids themselves