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Room-temperature base-free copper-catalyzed trifluoromethylation of organotrifluoroborates to trifluoromethylarenes

Y Huang, X Fang, X Lin, H Li, W He, KW Huang…

Index: Huang, Yuanyuan; Fang, Xin; Lin, Xiaoxi; He, Weiming; Yuan, Yaofeng; Weng, Zhiqiang; Li, Huaifeng; Huang, Kuo-Wei Tetrahedron, 2012 , vol. 68, # 48 p. 9949 - 9953,5

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Abstract

An efficient room temperature copper-catalyzed trifluoromethylation of organotrifluoroborates under the base free condition using an electrophilic trifluoromethylating reagent is demonstrated. The corresponding trifluoromethylarenes were obtained in good to excellent yields and the reaction tolerates a wide range of functional groups.