Laurent Saint-Jalmes

Fluoroform: an Efficient Precursor for the Trifluoromethylation of Aldehydes

Abstract Fluoroform is shown to be an efficient trifluoromethylating agent when deprotonated using standard reagents in DMF. The important role of DMF as a solvent but also as a reactant was demonstrated.

ZrCl4-promoted halogen migration during an electrophilic amination of halogenated phenolsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: spectroscopic data (1H NMR,13C NMR, IR, MS), mp and elemental analysis (or HRMS) for the products 3 and 4. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b2/b203622c/Dedicated to Professor Waldemar Adam, University of Würzburg, Germany, on the occasion of his 65th birthday.

An electrophilic amination of halogenated phenols with diisopropyl diazenedicarboxylate in the presence of ZrCl4 as a Lewis acid, accompanied by a halogen migration, was demonstrated for the first time; the fluorine, chlorine, bromine, or iodine atom migrated during the amination process under mild reaction conditions.