作者:Nobuhiro Kihara、Cyril Ollivier、Philippe Renaud
DOI:10.1021/ol990971n
日期:1999.11.1
[GRAPHICS]Treatment of alpha-iodocarboxylic acid derivatives with 2 equiv of triethylborane under oxygen atmosphere gives the corresponding a-hydroxy acid derivatives. This method is based on an iodine atom transfer from the ethyl radical, generated by the reaction of triethylborane and oxygen, with the alpha-iodocarbonyl compound. It offers several advantages over classical ionic substitution reactions: no elimination product is observed, tertiary iodides are efficiently converted to alcohols, and finally, this one-step procedure is working with substrates sensitive to nucleophiles.