Vinyliodonium salts : their stereospecific synthesis and reactions as the activated vinyl halides

Vinyliodonium salts $\text{2}$ were synthesized from vinylsilanes $\text{1}$ by the reaction with iodosylbenzene and triethyloxonium tetrafluoroborate. The reaction occurs stereospecifically with retention of configuration. Vinyliodonium salts $\text{2}$ are highly effective as the activated species of vinyl iodides. Thus, a variety of substituted olefins including α-cyano and α-nitro olefins, vinyl sulfides, vinyl halides, and α,β-unsaturated esters, were prepared from $\text{2}$ under mild reaction conditions.