Iodinated organic compounds have a crucial role as synthetic intermediates in organic chemistry, as well as drugs and radioactive markers in medicine. Classic iodinating agents have low atom economy and as such are unsuitable from a green chemistry perspective. Therefore, abundant research has been conducted on the field of oxidative iodination, which enables 100 % iodine atom economy. Within this Bachelor's thesis, aerobic oxidative iodination with I2/O2/NaNO2/H2SO4 system is studied. Influence and role of each component in our system was investigated. I2 is the source of iodine atoms. O2 is the terminal oxidant for iodine regeneration from iodide ions that form as a side product. Under acidic conditions, NaNO2 disproportionates to nitric oxides that act as electron mediators between iodide ions and oxygen in the catalytic cycle of iodine regeneration. Furthermore, the catalytic cycle can enable in situ formation of electrophilic »I+« reagent that reacts with nucleophilic organic substrate. H2SO4 is the activator of iodination, as it enables the formation of nitric oxides from NaNO2. Using our system, anisole, 4-tert-butylphenol and 4-tert-butyltoluene were monoiodinated at room temperature in oxygen atmosphere. Anisole is quantitatively converted to monoiodinated product in 3 hours; 4-iodoanisole was isolated with 82 % yield without the use of organic solvents. 4-tert-Butylphenol is incompatible with our system due to oxidative nitration side reaction – depletion of NO2 halts the catalytic cycle, thus making quantitative conversion to iodinated product unattainable. Isolated yield of iodinated product was 34 % after chromatographic separation. Although 4-tert-butyltoluene is less activated for iodination, quantitative conversion was achieved by employing higher concentration of H2SO4 and longer reaction time (24 hours). Yield of iodination was 95 %. Our method utilizes accessible iodine atom source I2, »green« oxidant O2, and inexpensive catalyst NaNO2. Reaction is conducted at room temperature in environmentally acceptable MeCN. Our system is suitable for iodination of activated aromatic compounds, and its reactivity can be readily tuned by adjusting the concentration of H2SO4.
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