Heteroaryliodonium salts

Aryl-, as well as heteroaryliodonium salts, belong to the most common, stable, and well investigated class of polyvalent iodine compounds. The preparation and chemistry of aryliodonium salts was extensively covered in several reviews [5,7,9,10]. Diaryliodonium salts have found synthetic application as arylating reagents in reactions with various organic substrates. 

Diaryliodonium salts are the most stable and well-investigated class of iodonium salts. The first example of these compounds, (4-iodophenyl)phenyliodonium bisulfate, was prepared by Hartmann and Meyer in 1894 from iodosylbenzene and sulfuric acid [368]. Diaryliodonium salts Ar2l+ X are air- and moisture-stable compounds, whose physical properties are strongly affected by the nature of the anionic part of the molecule. In particular, diaryliodonium salts with halide anions are generally sparingly soluble in many organic solvents, whereas triflate and tetrafluoroborate salts have a better solubility. The chemistry of aryl-and heteroaryliodonium salts has been extensively covered in several reviews [361,369,370]. 

A summary of the biological properties of iodonium salts has been provided in a 1996 review [1]. Among the numerous known structural types of polyvalent organic iodine compounds, only aryl- and heteroaryliodonium salts and iodonium ylides have considerable, practically useful biological activity. Table 7.1 provides a brief description of the specific biological activity of several patented iodonium derivatives. 

A very mild and general method for the preparation of diaryl- and heteroaryliodonium triflates is based on iodonium transfer reactions of iodine(III) cyanides with the respective aryl- or heteroarylstannanes [146,148, 399-401]. Specifically, (dicyano)iodonium triflate (277), generated in situ from iodosyl triflate and MesSiCN, reacts with tributyltin derivatives of aromatic and heteroaromatic compounds to afford the corresponding symmetrical iodonium salts under very mild conditions (Scheme 2.80) [389,390]. 

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