Page 1. Tetrahedron Letters,Vol.25,No.l3,pp 1329-1332,1984 0040-4039/84 $3.00 + .OO Printed in Great Britain 01984 Pergamon Press Ltd. PREPARATION OF ESTERS CONTAINING AN n-CF3 GROUP Suzanne T. Purrington*, T. Stephen Everett and Carl L. Bumgardner* Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina 27695 ... Ry-CF3 C02Et C02Et H 1 II III -t i 2 1 % yield 76 overnight 73 overnight 66 overnight 68 ...