Oxidative Heteroatom–Heteroatom Bond Formation

Abstract The development of oxidative heteroatom–heteroatom bond‐forming reactions based on the use of hypervalent iodine reagents is summarized, with emphasis on metal‐free and transition‐metal‐catalyzed reactions. The most important approaches are located in the field of nitrogen–heteroatom and sulfur–heteroatom bond formation, but also chemical transformations including rather rarely used elements are discussed. Increasing interest in the field of heteroatom–heteroatom bond formation in the past decades led to some notable discoveries, which are discussed within this chapter.