Study of electrophilic cyclization reactions triggered by diaryliodonium salts

Abstract

Electrophilic cyclization reactions are one of the most useful strategies for the construction of various cyclic compounds and significant progress has been made in the electrophilic cyclizations triggered by diaryliodonium salts. In these new types of electrophilic cyclization reactions, diaryliodonium salts can not only act as arylation reagents to initiate arylation-cyclization reactions giving aryl-substituted compounds, but also to be involved in the benzocyclization to give benzocycles.