Synthesis 2013; 45(18): 2499-2511
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1339679
short review
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Oxidative Rearrangements with Hypervalent Iodine Reagents

Fateh V. Singh
School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK   Fax: +44(29)20876968   Email: wirth@cf.ac.uk
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Thomas Wirth*
School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK   Fax: +44(29)20876968   Email: wirth@cf.ac.uk
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Publication History

Received: 05 July 2013

Accepted after revision: 07 August 2013

Publication Date:
15 August 2013 (online)


Abstract

Hypervalent iodine chemistry is used as an important tool in synthetic and natural product chemistry. A number of hypervalent iodine reagents can be used to generate the functionalizations on various scaffolds by several chemical approaches including oxidation reactions, oxidative cyclization reactions, and rearrangements. Recently, these reagents have been employed to develop a variety of oxidative rearrangements. In this review article, various aspects of recently developed oxidative rearrangements using iodine(III) and iodine(V) reagents are described.

1 Introduction

2 Oxidative Rearrangements

2.1 1,2-Aryl Group Migrations

2.2 Hofmann Rearrangements

2.2.1 Hofmann Rearrangements without Cyclizations

2.2.2 Hofmann Rearrangements with Cyclizations

2.3 Ring Contractions

2.4 Ring Expansions

2.5 Rearrangement of Tertiary Alcohols

2.6 Wagner–Meerwein Rearrangements

2.7 Domino Reactions

3 Summary