New insights into the mechanism of phenolic oxidation with phenyliodonium(III) reagents

Abstract

Calculations indicate that the position of oxidation of substituted phenols is in accord with the intervention of phenoxenium ions as intermediates. The lack of induction of chirality in the reaction whether using a preformed chiral iodonium reagent or a homochiral alcohol as the medium also supports this hypothesis.

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