Current Organic Chemistry - Volume 24, Issue 18, 2020

This Special Issue covers the hot topics on recent synthetic interest in halogen and related chemistry as well as the unique characteristics of halogen compounds. The excellent reviews by the experts and eminent researchers engaged in the recent advances, i.e., preparations, reactions, and mechanistic studies of unique organohalogen compounds, halogen bond interaction as the catalysis, and halogen-controlled unique Read More

Hypervalent iodine compounds have proved to be very useful reagents to bring about various oxidative transformations including (i) α-functionalization of carbonyl compounds, (ii) oxidation of phenols, and (iii) oxidative rearrangement of ketones and α,β- unsaturated ketones. These reactions find interesting applications in the development of newer and convenient approaches for the synthesis of flavonoids. This revie Read More

Since oxazoles have found widespread applications not only as synthetic intermediates but also as biologically active compounds, much effort has been focused on developing novel and efficient methods for the synthesis of this heterocycle. From the viewpoint of green and sustainable chemistry, hypervalent iodine and other halogen reagents have gained increasing popularity in metal-free oxidative transformation due Read More

Due to similar reactivity in comparison with aromatic organometallic reagents, diaryliodonium salts are currently in broad usage as less toxic, highly efficient, stable and mild electrophilic reagents in organic synthesis. The hypervalent iodine center of diaryliodonium salts can lead to unique reactivity, which thus is frequently presented in metal-free arylations or metal-involved elementary reactions such as oxidative addition, Read More

Hypervalent iodine-promoted dearomatization of phenols has received intense attention. This mini-review summarizes recent computational mechanistic studies of phenolic dearomatizations promoted by hypervalent iodine(III) reagents or catalysts. The first part of this review describes mechanisms of racemic dearomatization of phenols, paying special attention to the associative and dissociative pathways. The second p Read More

Halogen bond interactions, which take place between an electrophilic halogen and the electron-pair of a Lewis base and exhibit high directionality (approximately 180°), are non-covalent bond interactions similar to the hydrogen bond interaction. Many reports on halogen bond interactions have been published thus far, but many of them discuss halogen bond in the context of crystal engineering of supramolecular architectu Read More

Iodine is an element that exhibits characteristic features of heavy halogen, and several compounds containing iodine constitute important synthetic intermediates due to synthetically easy manipulation. To utilize iodine units for organic synthesis, a highly regio- and stereoselective introduction of iodine to versatile building blocks is significant, and a lot of research works for the selective introduction of iodine to alkynes or alkenes h Read More

β-Lactams, found in β -lactam antibiotics, are the structurally distorted cyclic compounds being subjected to nucleophilic acyl substitution reaction. α-Fluorination of β -lactams is a simple and expedient approach to control the reactivity of β-lactam ring toward nucleophilic attack, which would hopefully lead to the new design of future antibiotics. From the viewpoint of obtaining multisubstituted α -fluoro-β-lactams, α -bromo-α- Read More

The development of an efficient and mild synthetic methodology for the construction of bioactive fluorine-containing molecules represents one of the hot research topics in general synthetic organic chemistry. In this review, some recent progresses achieved in the development of detrifluoroacetylatively generated mono-fluorinated enolates via CC bond cleavage and their asymmetric nucleophilic reactions for asse Read More