Department of Chemistry
Date of this Version
5-2011
Abstract
For the first time it is shown that exceptionally electron-rich arene rings can be fluorinated exclusively during the reductive elimination reactions of diaryliodonium fluorides. The 5-methoxy[2.2]paracyclophan-4-yl directing group simultaneously reduces unproductive aryne chemistry and eliminates ligand exchange reactions by a combination of steric and electronic effects. Use of the cyclophane directing group permits an unprecedented degree of control in fluorination reactions of diaryliodonium salts.
Includes Supporting Information (50 pp.)
Comments
Published in Organic Letters 13:12 (2011), pp. 3158–3161; doi: 10.1021/ol201080c Copyright © 2011 American Chemical Society. Used by permission.