Abstract
Hypervalent iodine chemistry is used as an important tool in synthetic and natural
product chemistry. A number of hypervalent iodine reagents can be used to generate
the functionalizations on various scaffolds by several chemical approaches including
oxidation reactions, oxidative cyclization reactions, and rearrangements. Recently,
these reagents have been employed to develop a variety of oxidative rearrangements.
In this review article, various aspects of recently developed oxidative rearrangements
using iodine(III) and iodine(V) reagents are described.
1 Introduction
2 Oxidative Rearrangements
2.1 1,2-Aryl Group Migrations
2.2 Hofmann Rearrangements
2.2.1 Hofmann Rearrangements without Cyclizations
2.2.2 Hofmann Rearrangements with Cyclizations
2.3 Ring Contractions
2.4 Ring Expansions
2.5 Rearrangement of Tertiary Alcohols
2.6 Wagner–Meerwein Rearrangements
2.7 Domino Reactions
3 Summary
Key words
hypervalent iodine reagents - oxidative rearrangements - ring contractions - ring
expansions