Lewis Base Catalyzed Dioxygenation of Olefins with Hypervalent Iodine Reagents
Liangkun Pan, Zhihai Ke* and Ying-Yeung Yeung*
*Department of Chemistry and State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong,
Email: chmkz
cuhk.edu.hk, yyyeungcuhk.edu.hk
L. Pan, Z. Ke, Y.-Y. Yeung, Org. Lett., 2021, 23, 8174-8178.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.1c02872
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Abstract
Lewis bases catalyze vicinal dioxygenation of olefins with hypervalent iodine reagents under mild conditions. The reaction tolerates various functional groups.
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Key Words
1,2-diols, PIFA, organocatalysis
ID: J54-Y2021
