Gembreska, Nathan R; Vogel, Alexander K; Ziegelmeyer, Elizabeth C; Cheng, Eric; Wu, Fan; Roberts, Leo P; Vesoulis, Megan M; Li, Wei
description
Iodonium catalysis is described here to accomplish an intermolecular olefin oxyamination reaction. Urea is used as the O- and N-source to add across both activated and unactivated alkenes in a regioselective manner. Mechanistic studies confirm the presence of an iodonium intermediate.
