Direct synthesis of acyl fluorides from carboxylic acids using benzothiazolium reagents

• Lilian M. Maas,
• Alex Haswell,
• Rory Hughes and
• Matthew N. Hopkinson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 921–930, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.82

• fluorides were also observed as by-products. Given the increasing interest in acyl fluorides in organic synthesis and the attractive features of BT-SRF salts as reagents for organofluorine chemistry, we considered whether optimisation of the reaction conditions could allow for the selective synthesis of

Synthesis of 2,2-difluoro-1,3-diketone and 2,2-difluoro-1,3-ketoester derivatives using fluorine gas

• Alexander S. Hampton,
• David R. W. Hodgson,
• Graham McDougald,
• Linhua Wang and
• Graham Sandford

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 460–469, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.41

• generate a fluoride ion that facilitates limiting enolization processes, and an electrophilic N–F fluorinating agent that is reactive towards neutral enol species. Keywords: difluorination; difluoromethylene; direct fluorination; electrophilic fluorination; organofluorine; Introduction Fluorine is

(E,Z)-1,1,1,4,4,4-Hexafluorobut-2-enes: hydrofluoroolefins halogenation/dehydrohalogenation cascade to reach new fluorinated allene

• Nataliia V. Kirij,
• Andrey A. Filatov,
• Yurii L. Yagupolskii,
• Sheng Peng and
• Lee Sprague

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 452–459, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.40

• important synthons, which are widely used in agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and other fields [24][25][26]. Fluoroorganic lithium and Grignard reagents have been obtained by the metalation reactions of organofluorine compounds containing bromine and iodine atoms with alkyllithium and Grignard reagents

Trifluoromethylated hydrazones and acylhydrazones as potent nitrogen-containing fluorinated building blocks

• Zhang Dongxu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1741–1754, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.127

• Zhang Dongxu Department of Fire Protection Engineering, China Fire and Rescue Institute, Beijing 102202, P. R. of China 10.3762/bjoc.19.127 Abstract Nitrogen-containing organofluorine derivatives, which are prepared using fluorinated building blocks, are among the most important active fragments

• in various pharmaceutical and agrochemical products. This review focuses on the reactivity, synthesis, and applications of fluoromethylated hydrazones and acylhydrazones. It summarizes recent methodologies that have been used for the synthesis of various nitrogen-containing organofluorine compounds

• organofluorine compounds has become a major research focus. The use of difluoromethylating and trifluoromethylating reagents is a popular approach applied to prepare di/trifluoromethyl-containing molecules [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. Also the reaction of diverse di/trifluoromethyl-containing

Visible-light-induced nickel-catalyzed α-hydroxytrifluoroethylation of alkyl carboxylic acids: Access to trifluoromethyl alkyl acyloins

• Feng Chen,
• Xiu-Hua Xu,
• Zeng-Hao Chen,
• Yue Chen and
• Feng-Ling Qing

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1372–1378, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.98

• Feng Chen Xiu-Hua Xu Zeng-Hao Chen Yue Chen Feng-Ling Qing Key Laboratory of Organofluorine Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Lu, Shanghai 200032, China Shandong Dongyue Polymer Material Co., Ltd

Transition-metal-catalyzed C–H bond activation as a sustainable strategy for the synthesis of fluorinated molecules: an overview

• Louis Monsigny,
• Floriane Doche and
• Tatiana Besset

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 448–473, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.35

• functionalization of C(sp2) and C(sp3) centers with SCF3, SeCF3, or OCH2CF3 groups among others, by C–H bond activation. The scope and limitations of these transformations are discussed in this review. Keywords: C–H bond activation; emergent fluorinated groups; homogeneous catalysis; organofluorine chemistry

Cathodic generation of reactive (phenylthio)difluoromethyl species and its reactions: mechanistic aspects and synthetic applications

• Sadanobu Iwase,
• Shinsuke Inagi and
• Toshio Fuchigami

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 872–880, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.88

• ; (phenylthio)difluoromethyl radical; Introduction Organofluorine compounds containing a difluoromethylene group have been of much interest from biological aspects since the difluoromethylene group is isopolar and isosteric with an ether oxygen [1][2]. Particularly, organic molecules bearing a (arylthio

• from an aspect of green chemistry [7][8][9][10]. In this context, we have developed various electrochemical methodologies for efficient selective fluorination [11][12] and molecular conversion of organofluorine compounds to date [13][14][15][16][17][18]. We have also achieved the gem-difluorination of

A study on selective transformation of norbornadiene into fluorinated cyclopentane-fused isoxazolines

• Zsanett Benke,
• Attila M. Remete and
• Loránd Kiss

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2051–2066, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.132

• ; organofluorine chemistry; selectivity; Introduction Olefin metathesis is considered to be a powerful synthetic tool for the creation of olefin bonds [1]. Several types of metathesis reactions, such as ring-opening metathesis (ROM), cross-metathesis (CM), ring-closing metathesis (RCM) or ring-opening/cross

• enhance the pharmacokinetic properties of lead candidates in drug research through the improvement in lipophilicity, absorption, distribution, hydrophobicity and metabolism. Considering the high importance of organofluorine chemistry and that of fluoroalkyl groups in pharmaceutical chemistry, a wide range

Development of N-F fluorinating agents and their fluorinations: Historical perspective

• Teruo Umemoto,
• Yuhao Yang and
• Gerald B. Hammond

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1752–1813, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.123

• , introduction of fluorine into selective positions of a bioactive compound can produce remarkable changes in efficacy. Fluorine-scan/fluorine editing of a lead molecule is now a routine step in drug discovery [8]. Organofluorine compounds are very rare in nature [9] and therefore without natural compounds

• agents are essential for the wide-spread advancement of organofluorine chemistry to non-specialist chemists. Alternatives to F2, such as perchloryl fluoride (FClO3) [10] and the O-F reagents such as CF3OF [11], CF2(OF)2 [11], CsOSO2OF [12], CF3COOF [13], and CH3COOF [14] have been used as fluorinating

• brought about a breakthrough in synthetic fluorine chemistry enabling an increasing number of researchers to engage in organofluorine chemistry. Their development has significantly contributed towards the current ‘golden age’ of fluorine chemistry. The N-F fluorinating agents now stand out as particularly

Iodine-catalyzed electrophilic substitution of indoles: Synthesis of (un)symmetrical diindolylmethanes with a quaternary carbon center

• Thanigaimalai Pillaiyar,
• Masoud Sedaghati,
• Andhika B. Mahardhika,
• Lukas L. Wendt and
• Christa E. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1464–1475, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.102

• -fluorinated analogs [25]. Considering the ever-growing demand for organofluorine compounds, the development of new methodologies that allow the incorporation of fluorine atoms into bioactive molecules is highly desired and will also be addressed herein. Recently, the use of indol-3-ylmethanols as

Synthesis of bis(aryloxy)fluoromethanes using a heterodihalocarbene strategy

• Carl Recsei and
• Yaniv Barda

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 813–818, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.70

• was available. We report a simple, new procedure which we applied to the synthesis of some of these unusual structures. Keywords: acetal; aryloxyfluoromethane; dihalocarbene; herbicide; organofluorine; Introduction Organofluorine molecules are widely used for medicinal, agrochemical and material

Metal-free visible-light-enabled vicinal trifluoromethyl dithiolation of unactivated alkenes

• Xiaojuan Li,
• Qiang Zhang,
• Weigang Zhang,
• Jinzhu Ma,
• Yi Wang and
• Yi Pan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 551–557, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.49

• (πR = 1.44), compared with CF3 (πR = 0.88) and SCH3 (πR = 0.61), which could improve the pharmaceuticals’ ability to cross lipid membranes [9][10]. Along these lines, the introduction of the SCF3 group into small molecules has attracted great attention in organofluorine methodology [11][12][13][14][15

Biochemistry of fluoroprolines: the prospect of making fluorine a bioelement

• Vladimir Kubyshkin,
• Rebecca Davis and
• Nediljko Budisa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 439–460, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.40

• surprisingly, researches have been intrigued by an idea to introduce certain elements into biochemical schemes artificially. Of the many possible elements to introduce, fluorine is arguably the most suited for being used as an artificial bioelement [1]. Organofluorine chemistry is very diverse, and many

• organofluorine compounds are compatible with biochemical settings [2][3]. In addition, a number of organofluorine compounds occur in the metabolism of some niche organisms [4][5][6][7]. Proteins are key molecular entities acting in cellular processes, and they serve for numerous biochemical functions, such as

• structural, catalytic, energetic, and transport. The introduction of organofluorine components into proteins is typically expected to alter their structure, stability and/or specific features associated with their functional roles [8][9][10][11]. The replacement of natural amino acid residues with the ones

Synthesis of trifluoromethyl ketones by nucleophilic trifluoromethylation of esters under a fluoroform/KHMDS/triglyme system

• Yamato Fujihira,
• Yumeng Liang,
• Makoto Ono,
• Kazuki Hirano,
• Takumi Kagawa and
• Norio Shibata

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 431–438, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.39

• under the reaction conditions was also explored. Keywords: fluoroform; greenhouse gas; HFC-23; trifluoromethyl ketones; trifluoromethylation; Introduction In recent decades, organofluorine molecules have received widespread attention in the field of medicinal chemistry [1][2][3][4]. The introduction

• their biological properties, bioavailability, and ADME [7][8]. While tremendous methodologies have been developed for the synthesis of organofluorine compounds [9][10], many of the laboratory methods are not always suitable for industrial production in terms of their synthetic complexity, handling, and

¹⁹F NMR as a tool in chemical biology

• Diana Gimenez,
• Aoife Phelan,
• Cormac D. Murphy and
• Steven L. Cobb

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 293–318, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.28

• , but only one could be detected (SF5-catechol) despite the 19F NMR analysis showing the presence of multiple fluorometabolites. Detection and biosynthesis of natural organofluorine compounds As naturally-occurring organofluorine compounds are so rare, it is possible to easily detect them in a crude

Diels–Alder reaction of β-fluoro-β-nitrostyrenes with cyclic dienes

• Savva A. Ponomarev,
• Roman V. Larkovich,
• Alexander S. Aldoshin,
• Andrey A. Tabolin,
• Sema L. Ioffe,
• Jonathan Groß,
• Till Opatz and
• Valentine G. Nenajdenko

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 283–292, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.27

• activation parameters. Furthermore, the synthetic utility of the cycloadducts obtained was demonstrated. Keywords: Diels–Alder reaction; fluorine; nitrostyrene; norbornene; stereochemistry; Introduction Organofluorine compounds play an exceptionally important role in various fields of science and

Synthesis of tetrafluorinated piperidines from nitrones via a visible-light-promoted annelation reaction

• Vyacheslav I. Supranovich,
• Igor A. Dmitriev and
• Alexander D. Dilman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 3104–3108, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.260

• photocatalyst activated by blue light. The annelation is a result of a radical addition at the nitrone, intramolecular nucleophilic substitution, and reduction of the N–O bond. Keywords: difluoroalkylation; nitrones; organofluorine compounds; photocatalysis; radical addition; Introduction Nitrogen-containing

Conformational preferences of fluorine-containing agrochemicals and their implications for lipophilicity prediction

• Daniela Rodrigues Silva,
• Joyce K. Daré and
• Matheus P. Freitas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2469–2476, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.200

• as a site for electrostatic and hyperconjugative interactions [8]. Additionally, Juaristi and Notario [9] and O’Hagan and co-workers [10] have highlighted the crucial role of hyperconjugative interactions involving the fluorine lone pair in explaining the chemical behavior of organofluorine molecules

• substituents originated from the rotation of fluorine-containing C–C bonds should affect the polarity and, therefore, the physicochemical and biological properties of organofluorine compounds. However, there is a lack of studies that explain how these well-known conformational effects directly alter

• macroscopic observed properties, such as lipophilicity [13]. Accordingly, the main goal of this work is to investigate the relationship between lipophilicity and molecular conformation on a set of organofluorine agrochemicals. To this end, this study has been divided in two parts. First, we have analyzed the

Fluorohydration of alkynes via I(I)/I(III) catalysis

• Jessica Neufeld,
• Constantin G. Daniliuc and
• Ryan Gilmour

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1627–1635, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.135

• substrate specificity in small-molecule catalysis. It is envisaged that this organocatalytic variant of the venerable Kucherov reaction will find application in contemporary organofluorine chemistry [61] and contributes to the current interest in alkyne functionalisation via I(I)/I(III) catalysis [62][63

Photoredox-catalyzed silyldifluoromethylation of silyl enol ethers

• Vyacheslav I. Supranovich,
• Vitalij V. Levin and
• Alexander D. Dilman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1550–1553, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.126

• carbon–bromine bond. Keywords: difluoroalkylation; organofluorine compounds; photocatalysis; radical addition; silicon reagents; Findings Fluorinated silicon reagents have found widespread use for the introduction of fluorinated fragments [1][2][3][4][5]. Typically, these reagents work under strongly

Copper-based fluorinated reagents for the synthesis of CF₂R-containing molecules (R ≠ F)

• Louise Ruyet and
• Tatiana Besset

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1051–1065, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.92

• well as in materials science [1][2][3][4], the quest for innovation in the organofluorine chemistry field is of high importance. In that context, the development of new strategies is an important driving force [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14], offering efficient and original tools to introduce a

• . Unprecedented transformations were successfully achieved using these copper-based reagents and these efficient synthetic tools opened new perspectives in the very active research field of organofluorine chemistry. Nevertheless, this field is still in its infancy and milestones towards copper-based

Reaction of indoles with aromatic fluoromethyl ketones: an efficient synthesis of trifluoromethyl(indolyl)phenylmethanols using K₂CO₃/n-Bu₄PBr in water

• Thanigaimalai Pillaiyar,
• Masoud Sedaghati and
• Gregor Schnakenburg

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 778–790, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.71

• cruciferous vegetables [15], has a wide range of biomedical applications as an anticancer [16], antioxidant, and antiatherogenic agent [17]. Organofluorine compounds have attracted much attention due to their potential biological applications in medicinal and agricultural sciences. Introducing fluoro groups

Cascade trifluoromethylthiolation and cyclization of N-[(3-aryl)propioloyl]indoles

• Ming-Xi Bi,
• Shuai Liu,
• Yangen Huang,
• Xiu-Hua Xu and
• Feng-Ling Qing

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 657–662, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.62

• Organofluorine Chemistry, Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Chinese Academy of Science, 345 Lingling Lu, Shanghai 200032, China 10.3762/bjoc.16.62 Abstract A cascade oxidative trifluoromethylthiolation and cyclization

Copper-promoted/copper-catalyzed trifluoromethylselenolation reactions

• Clément Ghiazza and
• Anis Tlili

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 305–316, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.30

• Clement Ghiazza Anis Tlili Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, 43 Bd du 11 Novembre 1918, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France 10.3762/bjoc.16.30 Abstract Copper catalysis and, more generally, copper chemistry are pivotal for modern organofluorine chemistry. Major

Fluorine-containing substituents: metabolism of the α,α-difluoroethyl thioether motif

• Andrea Rodil,
• Alexandra M. Z. Slawin,
• Nawaf Al-Maharik,
• Ren Tomita and
• David O’Hagan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1441–1447, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.144

• discovery chemistry. It is however, significantly less lipophilic than aryl-SCF3 which may offer a practical advantage in tuning overall pharmacokinetic profiles of molecules in development. Keywords: Cunninghamella elegans; cytochrome P450; fluorinated substituents; organofluorine metabolism