Room-temperature catalytic hydrodefluorination of C(sp3)-F bonds. uri icon

abstract

  • Room-temperature catalytic hydrodefluorination of the strong C(sp3)-F bonds in benzotrifluorides and fluoropentane is catalyzed by Et3Si[B(C6F5)4] and uses Et3SiH as the source of H. Ar-CF3 compounds are converted to Ar-CH3 and fluropentane to pentane. The reaction is thought to proceed via abstraction of F- by Et3Si[B(C6F5)4], and the substituent effects are consistent with this hypothesis.

published proceedings

  • J Am Chem Soc

altmetric score

  • 9

author list (cited authors)

  • Scott, V. J., Celenligil-Cetin, R., & Ozerov, O. V.

citation count

  • 265

complete list of authors

  • Scott, Valerie J||Celenligil-Cetin, Remle||Ozerov, Oleg V

publication date

  • March 2005