Practical preparation of potentially anesthetic fluorinated ethyl methyl ethers by means of bromine trifluoride and other methods
Synthetic methods, especially those that use bromine trifluoride as a fluorinating agent, are described for the preparation of a number of fluorinated ethyl methyl ethers in good yield and high purity. In all cases, medium-scale syntheses (8-22g) of potentially anesthetic compounds have been accomplished. The compounds are of sufficient purity (>99%) for biological evaluation.
Hudlicky, Tomas,Duan, Caiming,Reed, Josephine W.,Yan, Fengyang,Hudlicky, Milos,Endoma, Mary Ann,Eger II, Edmond I.