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J Org Chem
; 88(13): 8345-8351, 2023 Jul 07.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-37262306
ABSTRACT
By carefully choosing the reaction conditions, we have developed the controllable FeCl3- or CuCl2-mediated dehydrazinative hydrogenation or chlorination of 3,3-difluoroallyl hydrazines to access α-CF2H or α-CF2Cl styrenes. The current reaction provides for the first time a facile method for the direct and selective synthesis of α-CF2H and α-CF2Cl styrenes starting from the same precursors, which is easy to scale up and displays a broad substrate scope and good functional group tolerance. Moreover, product derivatization experiments demonstrated that the resulting α-CF2Cl styrenes are practical and versatile building blocks for the diversified synthesis of fluorinated molecules.