Aromatic halogenated compounds have been used for over a century as important chemicals or intermediates in organic synthesis. Iodoarenes are valuable intermediates in the synthesis of a wide variety of organic compounds via reactions involving C-C bond formation by transition metals. They have many applications in pharmacology, medicine, and biochemistry. Since iodine is the least reactive halogen towards the electrophilic substitution, direct iodination of aromatic compounds with iodine is difficult. A large diversity of methods for synthesis of aromatic iodides have been reported. Some of the reported procedures need harsh conditions such as HNO3 /H2SO4 , HIO3 or HIO4 /H2SO4 , KMnO4 /H2SO4, CrO3 in acidic solution with I2 , vanadium salts/CF3SO3H at 100 ◦C,9 Pb(OAc)4 /HOAc. NIS/CF3SO3H has also been reported for direct iodination of highly deactivated aromatics. The other reported protocols are: I2 /HgX2 , ICl/Ag2SO4/H2SO4 , NIS/CF3CO2H , I2 /Ag2SO4 , I2 /F-TEDA-BF4 ,NIS/CH3CN , and(CH3)4 NICl2 . Our goal, in undertaking this line of work, was to overcome the limitations and drawbacks of the reported methods, which mentioned above, and also, to develop a high-yielding one-pot synthesis of iodoarenes using a novel combination of reagents. ∗Corresponding author
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