In the last decades, hypervalent iodine reagents have raised from chemical curiosities to mainstream reagents in organic synthesis. The use of benziodoxole-derived reagents has been especially successful in oxidation methods, whereas non-cyclic iodinanes have been used both for oxidation and atom-transfer reactions. On the other hand, the exceptional properties of 10 benziodoxole reagents for atom-transfer reactions have only started to attract the attention of the synthetic community more recently. In this review, progress in the use of these compounds for C-X and C-C bond formations will be presented. In particular, recent breakthroughs in trifluoromethylation and alkynylation reactions have been realized since 2006 bas ed on benziodoxole-derived reagents and these results are the main focus of this article.

Fine-tuned organic photoredox catalysts are introduced for the metal-free alkynylation of alkylnitrile radicals generated via oxidative ring opening of cyclic alkylketone oxime ethers.