“…In 2006, our group developed a new class of electrophilic trifluoromethylating reagents based on hypervalent iodine, including 1-(trifluoromethyl)-1,2-benziodoxol-3(1 H )-one ( 1 ) and trifluoromethyl-1,3-dihydro-3,3-dimethyl-1,2-benziodoxole ( 2 ), , both easily accessible in high yields from o -iodobenzoic acid, and commercially available CF 3 TMS (Ruppert–Prakash reagent). , Reagents 1 and 2 have been used successfully in our laboratories for the direct electrophilic trifluoromethylation of β-keto esters, sulfur centered nucleophiles, α-nitro esters, phosphines, phenolates, and alcohols and for the Ritter-type N-trifluoromethylation of nitriles (Scheme ). Finally, several other research groups have used reagents 1 or 2 for the trifluoromethylation of a variety of substrates. − …”