Alternative strategies with iodine: fast access to previously inaccessible iodine(III) compounds

Non‐iodinated arenes are easily and selectively converted into (diacetoxyiodo)arenes in a single step under mild conditions using iodine triacetates as reagents. The oxidative step is decoupled from the synthesis of hypervalent iodine(III) reagents which can now be prepared conveniently in a one‐pot synthesis for subsequent reactions without prior purification. The chemistry of iodine triacetates was also expanded to heteroatom ligand exchanges to form novel inorganic hypervalent iodine compounds