The functionalization of unactivated substrates through the combination copper catalysts and hypervalent iodine reagents represents a versatile tool in organic synthesis to access various classes compounds. derivatives can be used simply as oxidizing agents regenerate catalytic species or they associate starting material. In this review, special attention will paid methodologies which provide i...

We present a review of natural product syntheses accomplished in our laboratory during the last 5 years. Each synthetic route features a phenol dearomatization promoted by an environmentally benign hypervalent iodine reagent. The dearomatizations demonstrate the "aromatic ring umpolung" concept, and involve stereoselective remodeling of the inert unsaturations of a phenol into a highly function...