National Pesticide Engineering Research Center(Tianjin), Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering(Tianjin), State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China
Abstract:
In recent decades, hypervalent iodine chemistry has witnessed its explosive development. Hypervalent iodine reagents have drawn considerable attentions and their reactivities have been continuously explored. Hypervalent iodine reagents, featuring facile availability and easy handling, offer multiple advantages over established methods as a green, efficient and multipurpose oxidant. The reactivities of hypervalent iodine reagents are similar to derivatives of mercury, chromium, lead, thallium and other heavy metals, but the toxicity and environmental problems are less than those of the heavy metal reagents. This paper mainly introduces the development of hypervalent iodine chemistry, the structure and classification of hypervalent iodine reagents and the synthetic application of hypervalent iodine reagents in organic chemistry, materials chemistry and industrial synthesis.
