PAPER	Synthesis 2004: 441-445   DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-815955
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York
Eco-friendly Oxidative Iodination of Various Arenes with a Urea-Hydrogen Peroxide Adduct (UHP) as the Oxidant [1]
Piotr Lulinski, Anna Kryska, Maciej Sosnowski, Lech Skulski*
Chair and Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University, 1 Banacha Street, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland Fax: +48(22)5720643; e-Mail: lskulski@farm.amwaw.edu.pl;
Received 7 October 2003

Abstract

Three easy eco-friendly laboratory procedures are presented for the oxidative iodination of various activated and deactivated arenes with molecular iodine, in the presence of UHP (percarbamide), a stable, strongly H-bonded, solid urea-hydrogen peroxide adduct as the oxidant.

Key words

iodoarenes - arenes - halogenation - iodine - peroxides

1

These results were presented at the International Symposium on Frontiers in Molecular Science 2002, Qingdao, China, July 14-18, 2002.