Haidong Gu and Congyang Wang
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015,13, 5880-5884
DOI:
10.1039/C5OB00619H,
Communication
A dehydrogenative olefination of C(sp3)–H bonds is disclosed here, by merging rhenium catalysis with an alanine-derived hypervalent iodine(III) reagent. Thus, cyclic and acyclic ethers, toluene derivatives, cycloalkanes, and nitriles are all successfully alkenylated in a regio- and stereoselective manner.