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SUBMITTER: Ambler BR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4546558 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of organic chemistry 20150811 16
Trifluoroethylarenes are found in a variety of biologically active molecules, and strategies for accessing this substructure are important for developing therapeutic candidates and biological probes. Trifluoroethylarenes can be directly accessed via nucleophilic trifluoromethylation of benzylic electrophiles; however, current catalytic methods do not effectively transform electron-deficient substrates and heterocycles. To address this gap, we report a Cu-catalyzed decarboxylative trifluoromethyl ...[more]