The drastic effect of CF 3 CH 2 OH in promoting the rearrangement of the reaction of the N-chloro-derivative of 1a is interesting. Although, to the best of our knowledge, there is no report on the reaction of halo-amines and N-chloro-aminals in CF 3 CH 2 OH, we postulate that the observed efficiency enhancement is a consequence of the highly polar and low nucleophilic properties of this fluorinated alcohol, which could aid in facilitating the N–Cl bond ...