Abstract
The novel benziodazole oxides (3) can be prepared by oxidation of the readily available 2-iodobenzamides (5 or 6) with potassium bromate. Benziodazole oxides can find practical application as selective oxidizing reagents analogous to the widely used Dess-Martin periodinane (1) and benziodoxole oxide (2). Preliminary results indicate that reagents 3 can oxidize primary alcohols to aldehydes, while non-symmetric sulfides are oxidized to chiral sulfoxides with moderate enantioselectivity.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 5299-5302 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Tetrahedron Letters |
Volume | 41 |
Issue number | 28 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 8 2000 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by a research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF/CHE-9802823). We would also like to thank the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute and the UMD Digital Imaging Laboratory (DIL) for a generous allocation of computer resources.