benzene, a Versatile Reagent for the Mild Oxidation of Aryl Iodides at the Iodine Atom by Ligand Transfer

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/jo01296a049

Treatment of a variety of aryl iodides with benzene (1) under mild conditions resulted in ligand transfer, and new arenes were obtained.However, with some substrates containing proximate functional groups cyclic iodonium salts and iodinanes resulted.The reaction between 1 and 2-iodothiophene took a distinctly different course.