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Metal-free and asymmetric: The first enantioselective diamination of styrenes simply requires a chiral hypervalent iodine(III) reagent as an oxidant and bismesylimide as a nitrogen source (see scheme, Ms=methanesulfonyl). The reaction proceeds under mild conditions and with high enantiomeric excess.
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Röben et al. (2011) studied this question.
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