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The benzothiazolium salt BT-SeCF2H is introduced as an efficient nucleophilic reagent for transferring difluoromethylselenyl groups onto organic molecules. SeCF2H-Containing selenoesters could be prepared upon deoxygenative substitution of readily available carboxylic acids, while silver catalysis allowed for efficient formation of (difluoromethyl)selenoethers, including the established electrophilic reagent BnSeCF2H, directly from simple alcohols. To the best of our knowledge, these deoxygenative reactions represent the first reported nucleophilic difluoromethylselenylation processes and thus open up new approaches to prepare valuable fluorinated compounds.
Author(s): Tironi M, Dix S, Hopkinson MN
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Organic Chemistry Frontiers
Year: 2021
Volume: 8
Issue: 21
Pages: 6026-6031
Print publication date: 07/11/2021
Online publication date: 25/08/2021
Acceptance date: 22/08/2021
Date deposited: 16/11/2021
ISSN (electronic): 2052-4129
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
URL: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1QO01104A
DOI: 10.1039/D1QO01104A
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