The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Activating unreactive sites of organic molecules using elemental fluorine

S Rozen, C Gal

Index: Rozen, Shlomo; Gal, Chava Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1987 , vol. 52, # 13 p. 2769 - 2779

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Abstract

Electrophilic substitution reactions on saturated carbons are extremely rare. Elemental fluorine, however, uses this pathway to replace tertiary unactivated hydrogens with great regio-and stereoselectivity, resulting in a full retention of configuration. In accordance with