Electrochemical Fluorination Using Alkali‐Metal Fluorides

Abstract

Charged up: The selective electrochemical fluorination of organic compounds using the alkali-metal fluoride KF under very mild reaction conditions has been accomplished (see scheme). The long-standing problems of low solubility of metal fluorides in organic solvent and low nucleophilicity of fluoride ions for fluorination have been overcome by the use of of poly(ethylene glycol). Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.