Lanthanide Perfluoroalkylsulfonylamide Catalysts for Fluorous Phase Organic Synthesis

Joji Nishikido, Hitoshi Nakajima, T. Saeki, Akihiro Ishii, Koichi Mikami

Synlett · 1998 · 40 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

Lanthanide perfluoroalkylsulfonylamide complexes catalyze the Friedel-Crafts acylation and Diels-Alder reaction more efficiently than AlCl3 and Yb(OTf)3 in benzotrifluoride and hexafluoro-p-xylene.