Visible-light-promoted radical cyclisation of unactivated alkenes in benzimidazoles: synthesis of difluoromethyl- and aryldifluoromethyl-substituted polycyclic imidazoles

• Yujun Pang,
• Jinglan Yan,
• Nawaf Al-Maharik,
• Qian Zhang,
• Zeguo Fang and
• Dong Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 234–241, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.15

• 2019, Gouverneur and co-workers reported a hydrodifluoromethylation of unactivated alkenes, wherein a CF2H radical was generated from CF2HCOOH using (diacetoxyiodo)benzene (PIDA) and light [21]. This CF2H radical then added to the double bond to form a new alkyl radical, which underwent hydrogen atom

Divergent role of PIDA and PIFA in the AlX₃ (X = Cl, Br) halogenation of 2-naphthol: a mechanistic study

• Kevin A. Juárez-Ornelas,
• Manuel Solís-Hernández,
• Pedro Navarro-Santos,
• J. Oscar C. Jiménez-Halla and
• César R. Solorio-Alvarado

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1580–1589, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.141

• , Br) [26][27][28][29][30][31]. So far, different protocols for the halogenation of arenes using iodine(III) reagents have been described, mainly using (diacetoxyiodo)benzene (PIDA)/TMSCl, PIDA/TMSBr [32], and [bis(trifluoroacetoxy)iodo]benzene (PIFA)/TMSBr [33]. We have recently developed a new

Auxiliary strategy for the general and practical synthesis of diaryliodonium(III) salts with diverse organocarboxylate counterions

• Naoki Miyamoto,
• Daichi Koseki,
• Kohei Sumida,
• Elghareeb E. Elboray,
• Naoko Takenaga,
• Ravi Kumar and
• Toshifumi Dohi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1020–1028, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.90

• conditions and the use of an equimolar amount of the metal salt (Scheme 2A). Despite the expected advantage, direct synthesis of these diaryliodonium(III) carboxylates are scarce, and these compounds were synthesized by reacting (diacetoxyiodo)benzene and N-functionalized pyrrole in 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol

N-Sulfenylsuccinimide/phthalimide: an alternative sulfenylating reagent in organic transformations

• Fatemeh Doraghi,
• Seyedeh Pegah Aledavoud,
• Mehdi Ghanbarlou,
• Bagher Larijani and
• Mohammad Mahdavi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1471–1502, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.106

• nucleophilic attack of TMSN3 to deliver product 11 (Scheme 7). Tian and Chang et al. could synthesize 3‑sulfenylated coumarin compounds 13 by using N-sulfanylsuccinimides 1 under a Lewis acid catalysis system (Scheme 8) [48]. Additionally, oxidation of 3-sulfenylated coumarins utilizing (diacetoxyiodo)benzene

First synthesis of acylated nitrocyclopropanes

• Kento Iwai,
• Rikiya Kamidate,
• Khimiya Wada,
• Haruyasu Asahara and
• Nagatoshi Nishiwaki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 892–900, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.67

• -dicarbonyl compounds are treated with (diacetoxyiodo)benzene and tetrabutylammonium iodide, iodination occurs at the α-position of the nitro group, and the subsequent O-attack of the enol moiety leads to 2,3-dihydrofuran. Cyclopropane was successfully synthesized through C-attack as the acyl group became

• ), was subjected to cyclopropanation according to a method described in the literature [13]. To a solution of adduct 4b in toluene, (diacetoxyiodo)benzene and tetrabutylammonium iodide were added, and the resulting mixture was stirred at room temperature for 14 h. Unexpectedly, from the reaction mixture

• the graph. In addition, we confirmed that isolated cyclopropane 1e did not change upon treatment with (diacetoxyiodo)benzene and tetrabutylammonium iodide. These findings indicate that no equilibrium existed between cyclopropane 1e and dihydrofuran 8e, and that these products were competitively formed

Synthesis of novel [1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-b][1,2,4,5]tetrazines and investigation of their fungistatic activity

• Anna V. Korotina,
• Svetlana G. Tolshchina,
• Rashida I. Ishmetova,
• Natalya P. Evstigneeva,
• Natalya A. Gerasimova,
• Natalya V. Zilberberg,
• Nikolay V. Kungurov,
• Gennady L. Rusinov,
• Oleg N. Chupakhin and
• Valery N. Charushin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 243–250, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.29

• cyclization of products 2a–i (Scheme 2). It has been shown that the oxidative cyclization of 1,2,4,5-tetrazines 2a–i into triazolo[1,5-b][1,2,4,5]tetrazines 3a–i takes place by action of (diacetoxyiodo)benzene on heating in trifluoroethanol. The target products were obtained in 10–86% yield. According to TLC

• (10%), but did not afford the products 3a,g. The reactions of 2 with (diacetoxyiodo)benzene in acetonitrile gave the target products 3a,b,g, however, both yields and purities of these compounds proved to be higher when trifluoroethanol was used as a solvent. It has been shown that new triazolo[1,5-b

Synthesis of benzo[d]imidazo[2,1-b]benzoselenoazoles: Cs₂CO₃-mediated cyclization of 1-(2-bromoaryl)benzimidazoles with selenium

• Mio Matsumura,
• Yuki Kitamura,
• Arisa Yamauchi,
• Yoshitaka Kanazawa,
• Yuki Murata,
• Tadashi Hyodo,
• Kentaro Yamaguchi and
• Shuji Yasuike

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2029–2035, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.199

• ring closure reaction using N-alkynyl-2-alkylselanylimidazoles and I2 (Scheme 1, reaction 2) [7]. Moreover, Punniyamurthy et al. reported the synthesis of benzo[d]imidazo[2,1-b]benzoselenoazoles using an oxidative cyclization by reacting 1,3-diarylselenourea with (diacetoxyiodo)benzene (Scheme 1

Synthesis and biological investigation of (+)-3-hydroxymethylartemisinin

• Toni Smeilus,
• Farnoush Mousavizadeh,
• Johannes Krieger,
• Xingzhao Tu,
• Marcel Kaiser and
• Athanassios Giannis

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 567–570, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.51

• = (diacetoxyiodo)benzene, TEMPO = (2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-1-yl)oxyl. Synthesis of (+)-3-hydroxymethyl-9-desmethylartemisinin (16), starting from Diels–Alder derivatives 9 and 10. Reaction conditions: a) toluene, 190 °C, 24 h, 84% (dr 9:10:11 = 1.74:0.38:0.24); b) Martin sulfurane, DCM, 0 °C, 10 min, 97% [(E

Synthesis of spirocyclic scaffolds using hypervalent iodine reagents

• Fateh V. Singh,
• Priyanka B. Kole,
• Saeesh R. Mangaonkar and
• Samata E. Shetgaonkar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1778–1805, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.152

• substrate 14 followed by nucleophilic attack of the carbonyl moiety of carboxylic group. Furthermore, Giannis and co-workers [69] reported the synthesis of novel aminomethylpolystyrene-supported (diacetoxyiodo)benzene (PSDIB) reagents 17a and 17b starting from aminomethylated polystyrene with 4-iodobenzoic

• systems. In 2015, Jain and Ciufolini [124] developed PIDA-mediated spirocyclization of 2-naphtholic sulfonamides 124 to spiropyrrolidine derivatives 125. The spirocyclization reactions were carried out by treating N-sulfonamide substrates 124 with (diacetoxyiodo)benzene (15) in trifluoroacetic acid (TFA

• (diacetoxyiodo)benzene, [bis(trifluoroacetoxy)iodo]benzene and Koser’s reagent have been used to achieve a variety of spirocyclization reactions under mild reaction conditions. Various hypervalent iodine-catalyzed spirocyclization of functionalized phenols and aromatic amines have been successfully developed

Glycosylation reactions mediated by hypervalent iodine: application to the synthesis of nucleosides and carbohydrates

• Yuichi Yoshimura,
• Hideaki Wakamatsu,
• Yoshihiro Natori,
• Yukako Saito and
• Noriaki Minakawa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1595–1618, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.137

•  22. Either (diacetoxyiodo)benzene or (dibenzoyloxyiodo)benzene could serve as an efficient oxidant, and the reactions utilizing them gave the products installing either the acetate or benzoate functionality, respectively, at the C2-position. Both glucal 115 and galactal 167 were amenable to the

• ratio. The latter was expected to be formed by halide counter ion exchange between CTAB and KI. Since the reaction occurred as expected, it was applied to the synthesis of amino acid conjugates. Acetyl groups of the (diacetoxyiodo)benzene were exchanged with N- and O-protected amino acids by slow

Atom-economical group-transfer reactions with hypervalent iodine compounds

• Andreas Boelke,
• Peter Finkbeiner and
• Boris J. Nachtsheim

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1263–1280, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.108

• temporary generate potentially unstable λ3-iodane derivatives and immediately convert them under the established α-arylation conditions. A PIDA ((diacetoxyiodo)benzene)-mediated ortho-iodination/O-arylation cascade was developed by Panda and co-workers using diversely functionalised phenols 23 (Scheme 14

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

• ). To verify our hypothesis tosyl-sulfinate 1 was treated with iodanes such as sodium periodate (NaIO4), Dess-Martin periodinane (DMP) [33], 2-iodoxybenzoic acid (IBX) [34], (diacetoxyiodo)benzene (DIB), phenyliodine(III) bis(trifluoroacetate) (PIFA) in the presence of methanol. (III)-Iodanes and (V

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

• alkene functionalization utilizing a PhI(OAc)2 ((diacetoxyiodo)benzene, PIDA)/Lewis acid combination in order to access isoxazoline and pyrazoline cores. Based on allyl ketone oximes and allyl ketone tosylhydrazones, we have developed an alkene oxyamidation and amido-amidation protocol en route to

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

• reaction pathways that lead to 3 and the achiral byproduct 5. The treatment of (diacetoxyiodo)benzene with TsOH readily gives Koser’s reagent [PhI(OH)OTs] [51], which has a higher electrophilicity toward the carbon–carbon double bond in 1. The dioxytosylation of alkenes with Koser’s reagent was found to

Oxidative cycloaddition of hydroxamic acids with dienes or guaiacols mediated by iodine(III) reagents

• Hisato Shimizu,
• Akira Yoshimura,
• Keiichi Noguchi,
• Victor N. Nemykin,
• Viktor V. Zhdankin and
• Akio Saito

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 531–536, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.39

• , Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada 10.3762/bjoc.14.39 Abstract [Bis(trifluoroacetoxy)iodo]benzene (BTI) and (diacetoxyiodo)benzene (DIB) efficiently promote the formation of acylnitroso species from hydroxamic acids in the presence of various dienes to give the corresponding hetero-Diels–Alder (HDA) adducts in

• and Bottke’s group have demonstrated that (diacetoxyiodo)benzene (DIB) and iodosylbenzene are applicable to the ene reactions of acylnitroso species derived from hydroxamic acids [22], the iodine(III)-mediated oxidative cycloaddition reaction of hydroxamic acids with dienes is still unknown. Herein

Self-optimisation and model-based design of experiments for developing a C–H activation flow process

• Alexander Echtermeyer,
• Yehia Amar,
• Jacek Zakrzewski and
• Alexei Lapkin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 150–163, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.18

• (Sigma-Aldrich, reagent grade, 98.0%, no further purification steps were applied, the same batch was used for all experiments, stored according to manufacturer’s suggestions), (diacetoxyiodo)benzene (Sigma-Aldrich, ≥98.0%) were all used as received. 3,3,5,5-Tetramethylmorpholin-2-one was synthesised as

Copper-catalyzed aminooxygenation of styrenes with N-fluorobenzenesulfonimide and N-hydroxyphthalimide derivatives

• Yan Li,
• Xue Zhou,
• Guangfan Zheng and
• Qian Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2721–2726, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.293

• aminooxygenation reaction of alkenes with phthalimide and (diacetoxyiodo)benzene through cis-aminopalladation and SN2 C–O bond formation [34]. In 2013, Zhu and co-workers described an n-Bu4NI-catalyzed aminooxygenation of inactive alkenes with benzotriazole and water which underwent a nitrogen-centred radical

Cross-dehydrogenative coupling for the intermolecular C–O bond formation

• Igor B. Krylov,
• Vera A. Vil’ and
• Alexander O. Terent’ev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 92–146, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.13

• lower temperature (50 °C instead of 100 °C, as in the case of CH-reagents 22 and 23) [53]. The ortho-acetoxylation and methoxylation of O-methyl aryl oximes 31 with Pd(OAc)2 combined with such oxidants as oxone, potassium persulfate, and (diacetoxyiodo)benzene (Scheme 7, coupling products 32 and 33

• , Scheme 11) compared with the alkoxylation of structures 46–49 [64]. Under similar conditions, aryl phosphates and benzyl phosphonic monoacids were subjected to ortho-acetoxylation in the presence of the Pd(OAc)2/PhI(OAc)2 system; (diacetoxyiodo)benzene served as the source of the acetoxy group [65]. The

• , (diacetoxyiodo)benzene, or potassium persulfate served as oxidants. The former three reactions are applicable to a broad range of substrates and alcohols. The drawback is that a large excess of alcohols is required. Unlike the alkoxylation of 84–86, the trifluoroacetoxylation of 87 was performed with

Multicomponent reactions in nucleoside chemistry

• Mariola Koszytkowska-Stawińska and
• Włodzimierz Buchowicz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1706–1732, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.179

• irradiation-assisted condensation of sugar hydrazine 115, 4-chlorobenzothioamide and an aromatic aldehyde in the presence of (diacetoxyiodo)benzene (Scheme 48) [125]. The conversion of 4-chlorobenzothioamide to 4-(chlorophenyl)isothiocyanate intermediate by (diacetoxyiodo)benzene was suggested to initiate the

A one-pot synthesis of 3-trifluoromethyl-2-isoxazolines from trifluoromethyl aldoxime

• Raoni S. B. Gonçalves,
• Michael Dos Santos,
• Guillaume Bernadat,
• Danièle Bonnet-Delpon and
• Benoit Crousse

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2387–2394, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.275

• available reagents have been employed under metal-free conditions. A group [27] reported that the hypervalent iodine reagents (diacetoxyiodo)benzene (DIB) and phenyliodine bis(trifluoroacetate) (PIFA) could successfully promote the oxidation of aldoximes to the corresponding nitrile oxide. Those reagents

Hypervalent iodine/TEMPO-mediated oxidation in flow systems: a fast and efficient protocol for alcohol oxidation

• Nida Ambreen,
• Ravi Kumar and
• Thomas Wirth

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1437–1442, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.162

• alcohol (1a) and (diacetoxyiodo)benzene (2) did not show any reaction after stirring for 12 h in dichloromethane at 35 °C. The addition of a catalytic amount TEMPO to the reaction mixture led to a rapid conversion to benzaldehyde (3a). For initial investigations of a flow system, a simple setup consisting

• were used without further purification. General procedure for the alcohol oxidation in flow Solutions of (diacetoxyiodo)benzene (1.1 equiv) and the alcohol (50 mg) in CH2Cl2 (1.5 mL) and 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperidinyloxyl (TEMPO) (5–10 mg, 10–20 mol %) in CH2Cl2 (1.5 mL) were loaded in two syringes

• the conversion by comparison of the product peak with the peak of the starting alcohol. Large scale oxidation of benzyl alcohol in flow The reaction was performed with the Vapourtec E-Series using a PFA tubing reactor. Benzyl alcohol (2 g, 18.5 mmol) and (diacetoxyiodo)benzene (6.3 g 19.5 mmol) were

Organic synthesis using (diacetoxyiodo)benzene (DIB): Unexpected and novel oxidation of 3-oxo-butanamides to 2,2-dihalo-N-phenylacetamides

• Wei-Bing Liu,
• Cui Chen,
• Qing Zhang and
• Zhi-Bo Zhu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 344–348, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.38

• chemical synthesis. This protocol not only adds a new aspect to reactions that use other hypervalent iodine reagents but also provides a wide space for the synthesis of disubstituted acetamides. Keywords: cleavage of carbon–carbon bond; (diacetoxyiodo)benzene; difunctionalized acetamides; novel oxidation

• to synthesize 1-carbamoyl-2-oxopropyl acetate derivatives by using (diacetoxyiodo)benzene (DIB) (Scheme 1) [31]. During the course of conditional optimization to synthesize 1-carbamoyl-2-oxopropyl acetate derivatives, we surprisingly found that almost none of the desired acetoxylation product was

Multistep flow synthesis of vinyl azides and their use in the copper-catalyzed Huisgen-type cycloaddition under inductive-heating conditions

• Lukas Kupracz,
• Jan Hartwig,
• Jens Wegner,
• Sascha Ceylan and
• Andreas Kirschning

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1441–1448, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.168

• supposed to be the main species after azido iodination, was regenerated by first ion exchange to the iodide form 2. Next, oxidation to the bisacetoxy iodate(I)-complex 7 was achieved by treatment with diacetoxyiodo benzene. Finally, pumping of a solution of trimethylsilyl azide (TMSN3) in dichloromethane

Hypervalent iodine(III)-induced methylene acetoxylation of 3-oxo-N-substituted butanamides

• Wei-Bing Liu,
• Cui Chen,
• Qing Zhang and
• Zhi-Bo Zhu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1436–1440, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.167

• acetate derivatives were synthesized through an acetoxylation process to methylene with the aid of (diacetoxyiodo)benzene (DIB) as the oxidant. Not only mild reaction conditions, but also excellent yields and good substrate scope make the present protocol potentially useful in organic synthesis. Keywords

• : 1-carbamoyl-2-oxopropyl acetate derivatives; C-hetero bond; (diacetoxyiodo)benzene; methylene acetoxylation; Introduction Carbon–carbon, carbon–heteroatom bond formation leading to useful molecular structures is one of the most interesting and challenging research topics in organic chemistry [1][2

• groups make these compounds valuable tools in organic synthesis [31][32][33][34][35][36]. Our interest in the chemistry of polyvalent iodine(III) reagents [37][38][39] prompted us to exploit the reactivity of (diacetoxyiodo)benzene (DIB). We report herein the use of DIB, as a nucleophile and oxidant, to