Chiral Hypervalent Iodine Catalysis Enables an Unusual Regiodivergent Intermolecular Olefin Aminooxygenation

JACS Au. 2021 Jun 28;1(6):734-741. doi: 10.1021/jacsau.1c00103. Epub 2021 Apr 29.

Abstract

A novel iodide-catalyzed intermolecular aminooxygenation strategy is described here. Amide is used as the O- and N- source to probe for regiocontrol strategies. Notably, simple additives can be selectively introduced to achieve regiodivergent oxyamination processes for electronically activated alkenes while being regio-complementary for unactivated alkenes. Our preliminary data demonstrates that this regiocontrol strategy based on nucleophile can also be applied in asymmetric processes using chiral hypervalent iodine catalysis.