posted on 2009-08-20, 00:00authored byAzhar-ul-Haq A. Shah, Zulfiqar A. Khan, Naila Choudhary, Christine Lohölter, Sascha Schäfer, Guillaume P. L. Marie, Umar Farooq, Bernhard Witulski, Thomas Wirth
The fast access to simple (Z)-3-iodo acrylic acid derivatives which can be easily oxidized to the corresponding hypervalent iodine(III) reagents is described. They can be used for various reactions with superior or similar reactivity as conventional hypervalent iodine(III) reagents.