Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1

A one-step photocatalytic synthesis of 2-(trifluoromethyl) butyrolactones

AK Judith

Index: Reineke, Ninja; Zaidi, Naveed A.; Mitra, Manju; O'Hagan, David; Batsanov, Andrei S.; Howard, Judith A. K.; Naumov, Dmitri Y. Journal of the Chemical Society - Perkin Transactions 1, 1996 , # 2 p. 147 - 150

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Abstract

An efficient one-step procedure is described for the synthesis of 2-(trifluoromethyl) butyrolactone 1 and 4-substituted 2-(trifluoromethyl) butyrolactones by the photocatalytic conjugate addition of primary and secondary alcohols to 2-(trifluoromethyl) acrylic acid 6. With the exception of methanol, the reactions are conducted without a photosensitiser. The diastereoisomers of compounds 8 and 10 were separable by chromatography and their ...