Biphenyl- and terphenyl-based recyclable organic trivalent iodine reagents

Biphenyl- and terphenyl-based recyclable trivalent iodine reagents, such as 4-bromo-4′-(diacetoxyiodo)biphenyl, 4,4′-bis(diacetoxyiodo)biphenyl, 1,4-bis[4-(diacetoxyiodo)phenyl]benzene, 4-bromo-4′-[(hydroxy)(tosyloxy)iodo]biphenyl, 4,4′-bis[(hydroxy)(tosyloxy)iodo]biphenyl, were simply prepared and their reactivities for the oxidative rearrangement of ketones to esters, TEMPO-mediated oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes or ketones, oxidative dealkylation of N-alkylsulfonamides to sulfonamides, and α-tosyloxylation of ketones were compared with p-(diacetoxyiodo)toluene and p-[(hydroxy)(tosyloxy)iodo]toluene to show the same reactivities and, moreover, the biphenyl- and terphenyl-based iodoarenes formed were recovered by simple filtration of the reaction mixture in every reaction. Thus, these biphenyl- and terphenyl-based trivalent iodine reagents can be used as the recyclable reagents.