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 …

Recent progress on selective deconstructive modes of halodifluoromethyl and trifluoromethyl-containing reagents

X Ma, Q Song - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Halodifluoromethyl and trifluoromethyl-containing compounds are widely employed in
organic chemistry, pharmaceuticals and materials science. Therefore, their applications and …

Transition-metal (Cu, Pd, Ni)-catalyzed difluoroalkylation via cross-coupling with difluoroalkyl halides

Z Feng, YL Xiao, X Zhang - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Difluoroalkylated compounds play a remarkably important role in life and
materials sciences because of the unique characteristics of the difluoromethylene (CF2) …

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 …

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 …

Phosphorus-mediated sp2sp3 couplings for C–H fluoroalkylation of azines

X Zhang, KG Nottingham, C Patel, JV Alegre-Requena… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Fluoroalkyl groups profoundly affect the physical properties of pharmaceuticals and
influence almost all metrics associated with their pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic …

Difluorocarbene as a building block for consecutive bond-forming reactions

AD Dilman, VV Levin - Accounts of chemical research, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Compounds containing a difluoromethylene unit have gained increasing
attention due to their utility in drug design. Classic methods for the synthesis of these …

Photocatalyzed Borylcyclopropanation of Alkenes with a (Diborylmethyl) iodide Reagent

J Hu, M Tang, J Wang, Z Wu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cyclopropane skeletons play a prominent role in the development of organic synthesis and
pharmaceutical chemistry. Herein, we report the design and synthesis of a stable …

The unique fluorine effects in organic reactions: recent facts and insights into fluoroalkylations

C Ni, J Hu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Fluoroalkylation reaction, featuring the transfer of a fluoroalkyl group to a substrate, is a
straightforward and efficient method for the synthesis of organofluorine compounds. In …

Controllable catalytic difluorocarbene transfer enables access to diversified fluoroalkylated arenes

XP Fu, XS Xue, XY Zhang, YL Xiao, S Zhang… - Nature Chemistry, 2019 - nature.com
Difluorocarbene has important applications in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and
materials, but all these applications proceed using just a few types of reaction by taking …