ELECTROCHEMICAL FLUORINATION OF N-CHLOROALKYL-SUBSTITUTED CYCLIC AMINES

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0022-1139(00)81220-8

The electrochemical fluorination of such N-chloroalkyl substituted cyclic amines as N-chloromethylpyrrolidine (1), N-(3-chloropropyl)pyrrolidine (2), N-chloromethylpiperidine (3), N-(2-chloroethyl)piperidine (4), N-(3-chloropropyl)piperidine (5), N-chloromethylmorpholine (6), N-(3-chloropropyl)morpholine (7), N-(2-chloroallyl)morpholine (8) has been conducted.Except in the cases of the N-chloromethyl-substituted ones (1,3 and 6), the corresponding chlorine-retaining-perfluoroamines were obteined in a yield of 5 - 20 percent together with perfluorinated ones (Yield = 20 - 60 percent).Neither chlorine-retaining amines nor perfluorinated amines, both of which having the original skeleton, was produced from fluorinations of 1, 3 and 6 in an appreciable yield.The spectroscopic data and physical properties of newly synthesized perfluoro-N-chloroalkyl-substituted cyclic amines are presented.