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Frontispiece: Alkyliodines in High Oxidation State: Enhanced Synthetic Possibilities and Accelerated Catalyst Turn‐Over
Author(s) -
Bosnidou Alexandra E.,
Muñiz Kilian
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201986061
Subject(s) - reagent , catalysis , chemistry , iodine , aryl , status quo , oxidation state , organic chemistry , organic synthesis , nanotechnology , alkyl , combinatorial chemistry , political science , materials science , law
Did Conrad Willgerodt and Johannes Thiele ever personally meet to discuss iodine(III) chemistry? In the end, Freiburg and Strasbourg are located quite near to each other. At such a hypothetical meeting, the two pioneers of “polyvalent iodine chemistry” would probably have celebrated their discovery of aryl and alkyl iodine(III) derivatives. Whereas the commonly stable aryliodine(III) compounds have become an ubiquitous class of reagents in organic synthesis, the corresponding alkyliodine(III) compounds are of notorious instability. The Concept Article by A. E. Bosnidou and K. Muñiz on page 13654 ff., provides an overview on the status quo of alkyliodine(III) compounds as practical reagents and catalyst states in organic transformations and on the prospects for future developments in the field.