Tapas Kumar Achar, Saikat Maiti and Prasenjit Mal
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2016,14, 4654-4663
DOI:
10.1039/C6OB00532B,
Paper
Iodinium cation (I+ or IOAc) was produced from the combination of phenyliodine diacetate (PIDA) and iodine. I+ facilitated the direct vicinal difunctionalization of olefins to α-azido, α-trideuteriomethoxy, α-2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy and α-acyloxy alkyl iodides via cation–π interaction at room temperature and under transition-metal free conditions.