Carbon− Carbon Coupling of C (sp3)− F Bonds Using Alumenium Catalysis

…, MR Haneline, C Douvris, OV Ozerov

Index: Gu, Weixing; Haneline, Mason R.; Douvris, Christos; Ozerov, Oleg V. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009 , vol. 131, # 31 p. 11203 - 11212

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Abstract

Dialkylalumenium cation equivalents coupled with the hexabromocarborane anion function as efficient and long-lived catalysts for alkylation of aliphatic C− F bonds (alkylative defluorination or AlkDF) by alkylaluminum compounds. Only C (sp3)− F bonds undergo AlkDF; C (sp2)− F bonds are unaffected. Examples of compounds undergoing AlkDF include monofluoroalkanes, gem-difluorocyclopentane, and compounds containing a CF3 group ...