Hypervalent iodine-induced nucleophilic substitution of para-substituted phenol ethers. Generation of cation radicals as reactive intermediates

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/ja00088a003

A novel hypervalent iodine induced nucleophilic substitution of para-substituted phenol ethers in the presence of a variety of nucleophiles is described. UV and ESR spectroscopic studies indicate that this reaction proceeds via cation radicals, [ArH^?+], as reactive intermediates generated by single-electron transfer (SET) from a charge-transfer (CT) complex of phenol ethers with phenyliodine(III) bis(trifluoroacetate) (PIFA). This is the first case that involves a radical intermediate on hypervalent iodine oxidations of aromatic compounds.