Journal of Fluorine Chemistry

Rearrangement and double fluorination in the deiodinative fluorination of neopentyl iodide with xenon difluoride

TB Patrick, L Zhang, Q Li

Index: Patrick, Timothy B.; Zhang, Likang; Li, Quinhua Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 2000 , vol. 102, # 1-2 p. 11 - 15

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Abstract

Alkyl iodides give products from the neopentyl rearrangement on reaction with xenon difluoride. Neopentyl iodide performs a double rearrangement and yields a gem-difluoro product, 2, 2-difluoro-3-methylbutane. Studies of the mechanism show that an alkene intermediate is involved in the double rearrangement process. Alkenes can be substituted as substrates in reaction with xenon difluoride–iodine to give gem-difluoro products. 13C ...