An oxidative Wagner-Meerwein transposition involving different functionalities mediated by a hypervalent iodine reagent has been accomplished. The strategy fits within the concept of "aromatic ring umpolung" and allows rapid access to highly functionalized cores.

An oxidative Prins-pinacol tandem process mediated by a hypervalent iodine reagent has been developed. This oxidative version of the famous tandem process fits within the concept of "aromatic ring umpolung" and allows the stereoselective transformation of simple phenols into highly elaborated spirocyclic dienone cores containing several quaternary carbon centers. The scope and the limitations of this process, including the study of its stereoselectivity, are described in this article. As a direct application of this stereoselective process, we describe the formal synthesis of (-)-platensimycin, an important antibiotic agent.

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Treatment of various dienimides in the presence of a Lewis acid and (trimethylsiloxy)furan leads to the corresponding aniline furan‐2(5H)‐ones. The same treatment with furan yields a triaryl product and, surprisingly, a byproduct with a pentacyclo[5.4.0.0.0.0]undecane main core. The formation of this birdcage system containing nine stereogenic centres was produced with complete diastereoselectivity.(© Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2009)

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