CHEMISTRY LETTERS, pp. 1573 - 1576, 1984. The Chemical Society of Japan 1984 A NOVEL ROUTE TO 5-FLUOROURACILS FROM CHLOROTRIFLUOROETHENE Takamasa FUCHIKAMI,* Akiko YAMANOUCHI, and Yasuyuki SUZUKI Sagami Chemical Research Center, Nishi-Ohnuma 4-4-1, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229 Diethyl fluoromalonate was prepared in one-pot from chloro- trifluoroethene via trifluoroacrylic acid lithium salt in 79% yield. ...