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Direct nucleophilic trifluoromethylation of carbonyl compounds by potent greenhouse gas, fluoroform: Improving the reactivity of anionoid trifluoromethyl species in glymes.


ABSTRACT: A simple protocol to overcome the problematic trifluoromethylation of carbonyl compounds by the potent greenhouse gas "HFC-23, fluoroform" with a potassium base is described. Simply the use of glymes as a solvent or an additive dramatically improves the yields of this transformation. Experimental results and DFT calculations suggest that the beneficial effect deals with glyme coordination to the K+ to produce [K(polyether)n]+ whose diminished Lewis acidity renders the reactive anionoid CF3 counterion species more 'naked', thereby slowing down its undesirable decomposition to CF2 and F- and simultaneously increasing its reactivity towards the organic substrate.

SUBMITTER: Saito T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6068191 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Direct nucleophilic trifluoromethylation of carbonyl compounds by potent greenhouse gas, fluoroform: Improving the reactivity of anionoid trifluoromethyl species in glymes.

Saito Takuya T   Wang Jiandong J   Tokunaga Etsuko E   Tsuzuki Seiji S   Shibata Norio N  

Scientific reports 20180731 1


A simple protocol to overcome the problematic trifluoromethylation of carbonyl compounds by the potent greenhouse gas "HFC-23, fluoroform" with a potassium base is described. Simply the use of glymes as a solvent or an additive dramatically improves the yields of this transformation. Experimental results and DFT calculations suggest that the beneficial effect deals with glyme coordination to the K<sup>+</sup> to produce [K(polyether)<sub>n</sub>]<sup>+</sup> whose diminished Lewis acidity render  ...[more]

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