Synthesis 2022; 54(19): 4320-4328
DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1738383
paper

Selective Csp3–F Bond Functionalization with Lithium Iodide

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Samantha Kyriazakos
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Rachel Palmer
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F. Yushra Thanzeel
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The authors acknowledge the National Institutes of Health (GM106260) for funding. SK and RP thank Georgetown University for a SMURF and a Raines fellowship, respectively.


Abstract

A highly efficient method for C–F bond functionalization of a broad variety of activated and unactivated aliphatic substrates with inexpensive lithium iodide is presented. Primary, secondary, tertiary, benzylic, propargylic and α-functionalized alkyl fluorides react in chlorinated or aromatic solvents at room temperature or upon heating to give the corresponding iodides, which are isolated in 91–99% yield. The reaction is selective for aliphatic monofluorides and can be coupled with in situ nucleophilic iodide replacements to install carbon–carbon, carbon–nitrogen, and carbon–sulfur bonds with high yields. Alkyl difluorides, trifluorides, even in activated benzylic positions, are inert under the same conditions and aryl fluoride bonds are also tolerated.

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Publication History

Received: 06 February 2022

Accepted after revision: 19 April 2022

Article published online:
31 May 2022

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