Fluorination of trimethylamine over cobalt (III) fluoride: Novel cyclisation of trimethylamine to polyfluoro-1, 3-dimethylimidazolidines (characterised by mass …
Trimethylamine has been fluorinated with cobalt (III) fluoride to give eleven novel highly fluorinated products including seven polyfluoro-1, 3-dimethylimidazolidines. Mass spectrometry and NMR spectroscopy were used to assign product structures. On fluorination under comparable conditions 1, 2-bisdimethylamino-ethane and bisdimethylaminomethane gave mixtures containing all the products characterised from the title fluorination. A cation- ...
