- Homologative trifluoromethylation of acetals
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Trifluoroethyl α-insertion of acetals has been developed. Aromatic, heteroaromatic, and alkenyl acetals react with in situ generated (trifluoromethyl)diazomethane in the presence of antimony(V) chloride to furnish α-trifluoromethyl acetals. A stereoselective version of this transformation exploiting the acetal as a chiral auxiliary is also presented. Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York.
- Hamilton, James Y.,Morandi, Bill,Carreira, Erick M.
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p. 1857 - 1862
(2013/07/26)
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- Chemoselective halogenation of 2-hydroperfluoroalkyl aldehydes
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2-Hydroaldehydes, RfCH(R)CHO, where Rf = CF 3, C2F5, n-C3F7 and R = CF3, C2F5, n-C3F7, Ph, H, were prepared via acid hydrolysis of the corresponding vinyl ethers, R fC(R) = CHOCH3, which can be readily prepared by reaction of Ph3P+C?HOCH3 with the corresponding ketone. The 2-hydroaldehydes can be chemoselectively converted to the acyl halide, RfCH(R)C(O)X (X = Cl, Br), via free-radical halogenation. The perfluoroalkyl group deactivates the 2-position toward radical abstraction of the 2-hydrogen, and halogenation occurs exclusively at the formyl hydrogen. However, halogenations of the 2-hydroaldehydes in glacial acetic acid chemoselectively gives the 2-haloaldehydes, RfCX(R)CHO, X = Cl, Br. Hydrolysis of the 2-hydroperfluoroacyl halides provides a useful route to 2-hydroperfluoroalkyl branched carboxylic acids, useful ketene precursors. This route avoids the use of toxic fluoroolefins, such as perfluoroisobutylene.
- Wiebe, Donald A.,Burton, Donald J.
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experimental part
p. 4 - 11
(2012/07/13)
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- Photochemical generation of highly destabilized vinyl cations: The effects of α- and β-trifluoromethyl versus α- and β-methyl substituents
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(Chemical Equation Presented). The photochemical reactions in methanol of the vinylic halides 1-4, halostyrenes with a methyl or a trifluoromethyl substituent at the α- or β-position, have been investigated quantitatively. Next to E/Z isomerization, the reactions are formation of vinyl radicals, leading to reductive dehalogenation products, and formation of vinyl cations, leading to elimination, nucleophilic substitution, and rearrangement products. The vinyl cations are parts of tight ion pairs with halide as the counterion. The elimination products are the result of β-proton loss from the primarily generated α-CH3 and α-CF3 vinyl cations, or from the α-CH3 vinyl cation formed from the β-CH3 vinyl cation via a 1,2-phenyl shift. The β-CF 3 vinyl cation reacts with methanol yielding nucleophilic substitution products, no migration of the phenyl ring producing the α-CF3 vinyl cation occurs. The α-CF3 vinyl cation, which is the most destabilized vinyl cation generated thus far, gives a 1,2-fluorine shift in competition with proton loss. The experimentally derived order of stabilization of the vinyl cations photogenerated in this study, α-CF3 3 3 3, is corroborated by quantum chemical calculations, provided the effect of solvent is taken into account.
- Van Alem, Kaj,Belder, Geerte,Lodder, Gerrit,Zuilhof, Han
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p. 179 - 190
(2007/10/03)
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- Effect of fluorine substitution of α-and β-hydrogen atoms in ethyl phenylacetate and phenylpropionate on their stereoselective hydrolysis by cultured cancer cells
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(±)-Ethyl 2-fluoro-2-phenylacetate was stereoselectively hydrolyzed by cultured cells of several rat cancer cell lines to give the carboxylic acid rich in the R enantiomer. The stereoselectivity increased for (±)-ethyl 2-fluoro-2-phenylpropionate (2b) with all present cell lines and for (±)-ethyl 2-phenyl-3,3,3-trifluoropropionate (3b) with rat hepatoma McA-RH7777 cell line. The stereoselectivity was different for the different cell lines, as McA-RH7777 cells preferred (R)-2b in contrast with the preference towards (S)-2b by other cells such as ras oncogene-transformed rat liver Anr4 cells. These stereoselectivities were different from those for non-fluorinated (±)-ethyl 2-phenylpropionate. Thus fluorine atoms are recognized by ester hydrolases of cancer cells, and fluorine substitution on the acyl group will be useful for making ester-type anticancer prodrugs more specific to cancer cells.
- Yamazaki, Yoshimitsu,Yusa, Shiro,Kageyama, Yu-Ichi,Tsue, Hirohito,Hirao, Ken-Ichi,Okuno, Hiroaki
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p. 167 - 171
(2007/10/03)
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- A novel access to 4-fluoropyrimidines from α-chloro-α'-trifluoromethylketones
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When treated with formamidine acetate and KOH, α-chloro-α'-trifluoromethyl ketones afford, though in moderate yield, 4-fluoropyrimidine derivatives.
- De Nanteuil
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p. 2467 - 2468
(2007/10/02)
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- LEWIS ACID CATALYZED ADDITION OF 2,2,2-TRIFLUORODIAZOETHANE TO UNACTIVATED ALDEHYDES
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Condensations of 2,2,2-trifluorodiazoethane with pentanal, cyclohexancarboxaldehyde and benzaldehyde have been performed in presence of antimony pentachloride or boron trifluoride.These reactions lead mainly to homologated aldehydes or ketones α substitut
- Tordeux, M.,Wakselman, C.
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p. 299 - 304
(2007/10/02)
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