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SUBMITTER: Guo S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7065645 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20190711 34
Modifying the electronic properties of olefins is the quintessential approach to tuning alkene reactivity. In this context, the exploration of trifluoromethyl groups as divergent electronic modifiers has not been considered. In this work, we describe a copper-mediated 1,2-(bis)trifluoromethylation of acetylenes to create E-hexafluorobutenes (E-HFBs) under blue light in a single step. The reaction proceeds with high yield and E/Z selectivity. Since the alkyne captures two trifluoromethyl groups f ...[more]