Front Cover Picture: Enantioselective Iodine(I/III) Catalysis in Organic Synthesis (Adv. Synth. Catal. 1/2019)

Abstract

The front cover picture is provided by Kilian Muñiz and co‐workers. “How would you like to live in Looking‐Glass House, Kitty? I wonder if they′d give you milk in there? Perhaps Looking‐Glass milk isn′t good to drink?” Alice's questions from the famous book from Lewis Carroll correlate to the expanding wonderland of powerful lactate‐based iodine catalysts. Unlike Alice's concern, these chiral iodine(I/III) compounds create the desired mirror‐image of each world with predictable stereocontrol. A state‐of‐the‐art description of the wonderland of powerful enantioselective iodine(I/III) catalysts is provided by the review of Flores et al. on pages 2–25 (A. Flores, E. Cots, J. Bergès, K. Muñiz, Adv. Synth. Catal. 2019, 361, 2–25; DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201800521).

Transition-metal-catalyzed C–H allylation reactions

“…In this vein, Yu's group reported the dual palladium and photoredox catalyzed regioand enantioselective a-allylation of N-methyl anilines with allyl acetates offering branched allylated products with good yield and excellent selectivity (Scheme 46). 135 The reaction protocol proved to be more selective with decent substrate scopes under Rh(III)-catalyzed conditions. Notably, (Z)-alkenyl fluorides were obtained as major products with good regio-and stereoselectivity.…”

Progress in organocatalysis with hypervalent iodine catalysts

“…These properties make them ideal eco-friendly reagents to be employed for various organic transformations. 6,7 Several reviews, 6,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] book chapters [23][24][25][26][27] and books [28][29][30][31] have been published in the past years emphasising the progress and development of hypervalent iodine chemistry.…”

Aqueous Mediated Reactions Involving Hypervalent Iodine Reagents

“…The chemistry of hypervalent iodine reagents has attained remarkable development in the recent years, demonstrated by a number of books, [27][28][29] reviews [30][31][32] and articles [33][34] in this area. Apart from many publications in this field, several international conferences have been successfully conducted on hypervalent iodine chemistry.…”