A New, Eco-Friendly Method for Iodination of Activated Arenes

An effective, eco-friendly method for iodination of arenes is presented. The reaction of activated aromatics with a mixture of sodium iodate and sodium sulphite in the presence of hydrochloric acid gives mono iodoarenes in high yields.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: R. Sathiyapriya, R. Joel Karunakaran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2006-01-01
Series:E-Journal of Chemistry
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2006/367389