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Preparation of 2-Fluoropyridines via Base-Induced Decomposition of N-Fluoropyridinium Salts
Umemoto, Teruo,Tomizawa, Ginjiro
, p. 1726 - 1731 (2007/10/02)
N-Fluoropyridinium salts with either BF4-, SbF6-, or PF6- as a counteranion were treated with excess base such as triethylamine at room temperature to give 2-fluoropyridine in good yield.This method was succesfully applied to the preparation of 2-fluoropyridine derivatives possessing electron-donating or -withdrawing substituents using substituted N-fluoropyridinium tetrafluoroborates.Pyridine-F2 compounds produced through reactions of pyridines with molecular fluorine were also treated with base to give 2-fluoropyridines but in low yields.These reactions are considered to occur through a carbene mechanism as follows: a novel N-F-containing cyclic carbene (3), generated from the N-fluoropyridinium salts by 2-proton abstraction, reacts with fluorine atoms from counteranions such as BF4-, SbF6-, or PF6-, followed by elimination of F- from the N-F moiety, to yield 2-fluoropyridines.Previously reported findings in reactions of pyridines with molecular fluorine are explained on the basis of this mechanism.
