posted on 2014-12-05, 00:00authored byHui Chen, Atsushi Kaga, Shunsuke Chiba
Diastereoselective anti-aminooxygenation and anti-diamination of alkenes
with amidines were enabled by
hypervalent iodine(III) reagents such as PhI(OCOR)2 and
PhI(NMs2)2, respectively. The present transformation
offers diastereochemically pure dihydroimidazoles divergently from E- and Z-alkenes.