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SUBMITTER: Banik SM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5096785 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20160701 6294
Difluoromethyl groups possess specific steric and electronic properties that invite their use as chemically inert surrogates of alcohols, thiols, and other polar functional groups important in a wide assortment of molecular recognition processes. We report here a method for the catalytic, asymmetric, migratory geminal difluorination of β-substituted styrenes to access a variety of products bearing difluoromethylated tertiary or quaternary stereocenters. The reaction uses commercially available r ...[more]