A fruitful decade of organofluorine chemistry: new reagents and reactions

FL Qing, XY Liu, JA Ma, Q Shen, Q Song… - CCS …, 2022 - chinesechemsoc.org
The development of synthetic methods for the introduction of the fluorine atom and
fluoroalklyl groups into organic molecules has gained increased attention. Synthetic organic …

Fluorinated pyrazoles: From synthesis to applications

PK Mykhailiuk - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Fluorinated pyrazoles play an important role in medicinal chemistry, drug discovery,
agrochemistry, coordination chemistry, and organometallic chemistry. Since the early 1990s …

Bicyclobutanes: from curiosities to versatile reagents and covalent warheads

CB Kelly, JA Milligan, LJ Tilley, TM Sodano - Chemical Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The unique chemistry of small, strained carbocyclic systems has long captivated organic
chemists from a theoretical and fundamental standpoint. A resurgence of interest in strained …

Palladium hydride-enabled hydroalkenylation of strained molecules

Z Zhang, V Gevorgyan - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We report the first palladium hydride enabled hydroalkenylation of strained molecules. This
new mild protocol proceeds via a regio-and chemoselective hydropalladation step, followed …

Making Full Use of TMSCF3: Deoxygenative Trifluoromethylation/Silylation of Amides

Y Wang, SJ Li, F Jiang, Y Lan… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
As one of the most powerful trifluoromethylation reagents,(trifluoromethyl) trimethylsilane
(TMSCF3) has been widely used for the synthesis of fluorine-containing molecules …

Approaches to obtaining fluorinated α-amino acids

J Moschner, V Stulberg, R Fernandes… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Fluorine does not belong to the pool of chemical elements that nature uses to build organic
matter. However, chemists have exploited the unique properties of fluorine and produced …

Copper-catalysed difluorocarbene transfer enables modular synthesis

X Zeng, Y Li, QQ Min, XS Xue, X Zhang - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
The use of metal catalysts to produce and control the reactivity of carbenes has long offered
a powerful approach to organic synthesis; however, difluorocarbene transfer catalysed by …

Synthetic Methods for Compounds Having CF3–S Units on Carbon by Trifluoromethylation, Trifluoromethylthiolation, Triflylation, and Related Reactions

XH Xu, K Matsuzaki, N Shibata - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
1. INTRODUCTION Fluorine is the most abundant halogen in the Earth, s crust. 1 However,
only a dozen fluorinated organic compounds have been identified in nature. 2 Most of the …

Trifluoromethyltrimethylsilane: nucleophilic trifluoromethylation and beyond

X Liu, C Xu, M Wang, Q Liu - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Method B 692 3.7. Selective Trifluoromethylation of Multi-Functional Substrates 693 3.8.
Enantioselective Trifluoromethylation 695 3.8. 1. Aldehydes and Ketones: With Cinchona …

C–C bond cleavages of cyclopropenes: operating for selective ring-opening reactions

R Vicente - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
This review highlights key reactivities relying on C–C bond cleavages of cyclopropenes.
Metal-catalyzed and metal-free transformations are covered in reactions involving direct ring …