Esters of acrylic acid have received continuous interest as reagents in organic synthesis. On the contrary, their &fluorinated analogues were somewhat deserted, 2 albeit they potentially allow the direct introduction of one or several fluorine atoms into a molecule. Thus, for an attempted route to 6, 6-difluoroshikimic acid, we needed esters of 3, 3-difluoroacrylic acid (1). Previously, such