Ther eactiono fa ni nternal alkyne with 2,6-dichloropyridine N-oxide,anucleophilic oxidant, and electrophilic N-iodosuccinimide (NIS)s imultaneously enables the direct access to versatile a-iodoenones.E lectronically biased internala lkynes undergo the one-stept ransformation with excellent regioselectivities andw ith practical Z/E ratios.I n comparison to the relatedo xidative gold catalysis using pyridine N-oxides,t his reaction employs NIS as the stoichiometric ynophile instead of the soft acidic noble metal catalyst and affords products featuring an additional versatileC À Ib ond. Similar strategies for replacing ynophilic cationic gold(I) complexes in oxidative gold catalysis with likewise ynophilic stoichiometric electrophiles would enable the development of new synthetic methods.Keywords: alkynes;e nones; iodination;o xidation; pyridine N-oxides a-Iodoenones possess an electrophilic enone moiety susceptible to either 1,4-or 1,2-addition andaversatile C À Ib ondf or transitionm etal catalysis.A ss uch, they are valuables tructures in organic synthesis. Theirs yntheses have been achieved mostly via iodination of functional substrates such as enones, [1] a-silyl/stannyla,b-unsaturated ketones, [2] propargylic alcohols [3] and their ester counterparts, [4] and occasionally via oxidation of iodinated allylica lcohols.[5] Therei ss eldom an approacht hat accomplishesb otho xidation and iodination in ac ollaborative fashion in one step from substrates with lesser degreeso fo xidation/functionalization.[6] Herein, we report an implementation of this approachu sing minimally functionalized internal alkyne substrates. Fort he past several years our group [7] and others [8] have reported the applications of an oxidative gold catalysis strategy in the development of versatiles ynthetic methods. As shown in Approach Ao f Scheme 1A, the coordination of as oft Lewis acidic gold catalyst to aC Ct riple bond triggers the attack of an ucleophilic oxidanta ti ts p bond. Thei nitial adduct can undergo fragmentation of the inherently weak O À Zb ond to offer expedient access to versatile a-oxo gold carbenes;a lternatively,i tm ay proceed to functionalized productsw ithout the carbene intermediacy in the presenceo famore facile reactionp athway.D ue to the catalytic nature of this chemistry,t he in situ generated Au À Cb ond in this class of reactions Scheme1.Replacingg old catalysts with stoichiometric electrophiles in the oxidationo fa lkynes by nucleophilic oxidants.