Highly Regioselective Synthesis of <i>gem</i>-Difluoroallenes through Magnesium Organocuprate S<sub>N</sub>2‘ Substitution
作者:Masayuki Mae、Jiyoung A. Hong、Bo Xu、Gerald B. Hammond
DOI:10.1021/ol052816g
日期:2006.2.1
[GRAPHICS]The reaction of gem-difluoropropargyl electrophiles with Grignard reagents is complicated by the inherent difficulty of executing nucleophilic substitutions on a CF2 group, and the facile formation of carbenoid intermediates arising from alpha-elimination of fluoride. In the presence of an excess amount of a copper salt, a Grignard reagent reacts with gem-difluoropropargyl bromide via an SINT mechanism to produce gem-difluoroallene in high yield. If desired, the resulting difluoroallene can undergo a second nucleophilic attack on the CF2 terminus to yield a trisubstituted monofluoroallene through an addition-elimination mechanism.