A new and in situ formed reagent generated by mixing PIFA {bis[(trifluoroacetoxy)iodobenzene]} and AlCl3 was introduced in the organic synthesis for the direct and highly regioselective ortho‐chlorination of phenols and phenol ethers. An efficient electrophilic chlorination for these electron‐rich arenes as well as the scope of the reaction are described herein. An easy, practical, and open‐flask reaction allowed us to introduce a chlorine atom, which is a highly important functional group in organic synthesis. The reproducibility of our method has been demonstrated on gram‐scale by carrying out the reaction in 6‐bromo‐2‐naphthol. This halogenation reaction also proceeds in excellent conditions by first preparing the iodine(III)‐based chlorinating reagent. Our new chlorinating reagent can be stored at least for two weeks at 4 °C without losing its reactivity.

Practical and convenient method for the synthesis of novel phosphonopeptides 8a-h and 10a-f incorporating the quaternary α-aminophosphonate 6 is reported. The target compounds were prepared in moderate to good yield based on the preparation of the quaternary α-aminophosphonate 6 followed by the formation of the α-bromoamide 7 and subsequent nucleophilic substitution reaction with several amines or by peptide bond formation with several amino acids and with the quaternary α-aminophosphonate 6, using isobutyl chloroformate as activating agent under racemization-free condition.

We present a convenient synthetic approach to novel 1‐phosphonylated pyrrolo[1,2‐a]pyrazine derivatives based in efficient three‐component reactions. According to this method, N‐functionalized 2‐formylpyrrole derivatives are used as bifunctional coupling reagents in the reaction with dialkyl phosphites and amines to access to the target compounds.