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SUBMITTER: Saito T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6068191 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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]