The ring-opening reaction of 2-trifluoromethyl-N-tosylaziridine with a variety of heteroatom- and carbon-centered nucleophiles was achieved under basic conditions in good to high yield with excellent regioselectivity. These findings enabled an easy access to useful α-trifluoromethyl-N-tosylmethylamine derivatives, such as 1,2-aminoalcohol, 1,2-diamine, 1,2-aminothiol, and distant secondary amine.
an ortho-C(sp2) atom of aromatic acids with aliphatic aziridines to construct the β-arylethylamine skeleton via C–H activation has been developed. The reaction proceeded under mild conditions with great substrate scope. Meanwhile, the β-arylethylamine skeleton in drugs or bioactive compounds could be easily generated in a single step. A catalytic amount of cesium carbonate was crucial to realizing
the synthesis of strained, trifluoromethylated heterocycles. With the utilization of a newly designed and bench‐stable but highly reactive hypervalent alkenyl iodonium species, these three‐membered‐ring heterocyclic compounds can be efficiently constructed from simple amines under mild conditions in the absence of transition‐metal catalysts. The special reactivity of the new trifluoropropenyl synthon
(β-Trifluoromethyl)vinyl sulfoniumsalt as a novel three-carbon fluorinated building block was conveniently prepared from easily available (β-trifluoromethyl)vinyl sulfide and diphenyl iodonium salt in excellent yield. This easily handled crystalline reagent displayed two types of useful transformation involving aziridination and vinylation to afford the corresponding trifluoromethylated compounds in excellent
We report the first [3 + 2] cycloaddition of 2-(trifluoromethyl)-N-tosylaziridine to nitriles using TiF4 as an effective Lewis acid under mild reaction conditions. The reaction proceeded smoothly and afforded the corresponding 4-(trifluoromethyl)-1,3-imidazolines in good yields and with excellent regioselectivity.