Journal of Fluorine Chemistry

A simple convenient method for preparation of difluoromethyl ethers using fluorosulfonyldifluoroacetic acid as a difluorocarbene precursor

QY Chen, SW Wu

Index: Chen, Qing-Yun; Wu, Sheng-Wen Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 1989 , vol. 44, p. 433 - 440

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Citation Number: 42

Abstract

Abstract In the presence of catalytic amounts of sodium sulfate or cuprous iodide, a variety of alkyl and aryl difluoromethyl ethers were synthesized in moderate yields by the reaction of the corresponding alcohols and phenols with fluorosulfonyldifluoroacetic acid (1) in