A silver‐mediated oxidative difluoromethylation of styrenes and vinyl trifluoroborates with TMSCF2H is reported for the first time. This method enables direct and facile access to CF2H‐alkenes from abundant alkenes with excellent functional‐group compatibility. Moreover, this Ag/TMSCF2H protocol could further enable a series of radical difluoromethylation reactions of a wide array of substrates, offering
difluoromethylation of heteroaromatic compounds using off-the-shelf difluoroacetic acid as the difluoromethylating reagent has been developed. Mono-difluoromethylation versus bis-difluoromethylation is controlled as the result of the reaction temperature. The reactions described here enable access to the late-stage C−H mono- and bis-difluoromethylation for preparation of tool compounds for chemical biology and
A highly efficient, transition metal- and oxidant-free, direct C(sp2)-H difluoromethylation of heterocyclesthrough visible light-induced electrontransfer was developed. The reaction afforded difluoromethyl heterocycles by only using photoexcited diacetyl. The reaction showed a broad substrate tolerance and gave the products in good yields. Moreover, the representative products exhibited potential
A palladium-catalyzed difluoromethylation of a series of heteroaryl chlorides, bromides and iodides under mild conditions is described. A wide range of heteroaryl halides such as pyridyl, pyrimidyl, pyrazyl, funanyl, thienyl, pyazolyl, imidazolyl, thiazolyl, and oxazolyl halides were efficiently difluoromethylated, thus providing medicinal chemists an alternative choice for the preparation of drug
diethylzinc can readily lead to (difluoromethyl)zinc reagents. Therefore, the first copper-catalyzed difluoromethylation of aryliodides with the zinc reagents is accomplished to afford the difluoromethylated arenes. The reaction proceeds efficiently through the ligand/activator-free operation without addition of ligands for copper catalyst (e.g., phen and bpy) and activators for zinc reagent (e.g., KF