Iodosylbenzene reaction with acetic acid

Closely related reactions are the self-coupling of P-dicarbonyl compounds upon treatment either with iodosylbenzene in the presence of boron trifluoride-diethyl ether in neutral solvents,234 or with iodobenzene diacetate in acetic acid. 235... 

Figure 5.4 shows several examples of ionic-liquid-supported (also called ion-supported) hypervalent iodlne(III) reagents [93], Ion-supported (diacetoxyiodo)arenes 98-100 are prepared by the peracetic oxidation of appropriate ion-supported aryl iodides [93-95], The ion-supported tosylates 101 and 102 are made by treatment of the appropriate acetates with toluenesulfonic acid in acetonitrile [95,96] and the ion-supported iodosylbenzenes 103 and 104 are prepared by treatment of appropriate diacetates with sodium hydroxide in water [93], Ion-supported derivatives 98-104 are thermally stable solids or viscous liquids that can be used as efficient recyclable hypervalent iodine(III) reagents. Reactions of these reagents with organic substrates produce the corresponding ion-supported aryl iodides as by-products, which can be easily recovered from the reaction mixture either by extraction into an ionic liquid phase or by simple filtration. 

The oxidative decarboxylation of aliphatic carboxylic acids is best achieved by treatment of the acid with LTA in benzene, in the presence of a catalytic amount of copper(II) acetate. The latter serves to trap the radical intermediate and so bring about elimination, possibly through a six-membered transition state. Primary carboxylic acids lead to terminal alkenes, indicating that carbocations are probably not involved. The reaction has been reviewed. The synthesis of an optically pure derivative of L-vinylglycine from L-aspartic acid (equation 14) is illustrative. The same transformation has also been effected with sodium persulfate and catalytic quantities of silver nitrate and copper(II) sulfate, and with the combination of iodosylbenzene diacetate and copper(II) acetate. ... 

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