Rearrangement and radical mediated decarboxylation of trimethylsilyl benzoates using xenon difluoride

P Nongkunsarn, CA Ramsden

Index: Nongkunsarn, Pakawan; Ramsden, Christopher A. Journal of the Chemical Society - Perkin Transactions 1, 1996 , # 2 p. 121 - 122

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Abstract

Treatment of trimethylsilyl benzoates 1 with xenon difluoride in CHCl or CF results in a novel ester rearrangement and formation of aryl fluoroformates 2: rearrangement is not observed in MeCN solution in which the main products are arenes formed the corresponding aryl radical.