Ligand‐Promoted Iron(III)‐Catalyzed Hydrofluorination of Alkenes

Yongtao Xie, Pengwei Sun, Yuxin Li, Siwei Wang, Mengchun Ye, Zhengming Li

Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2019 · 45 citations · 48 references

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Abstract

An iron-catalyzed hydrofluorination of unactivated alkenes has been developed. The use of a multidentate ligand and the fluorination reagent N-fluorobenzenesulfonimide (NFSI) proved to be critical for this reaction, which afforded various fluorinated compounds in up to 94 % yield.

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