1 Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Chinese Medicinal Resources Industrialization, College of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China. liuzhq@lzu.edu.cn.
We demonstrated herein an I2O5-mediated radical nitration of olefins with NaNO2. A variety of (E)-nitroolefins can be synthesized in high yields and chemoselectivity.