Chemical Communications 2003-10-21

A novel 1,3,5-tris(alpha,beta,beta-trifluorovinyl)benzene monomer.

Lawrence A Ford, Darryl D DesMarteau

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) (20) , 2596-7, (2003)

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Abstract

The reaction of the perfluoroalkenylzinc reagent, CF2=CFZnBr, with 1,3,5-tribromobenzene in the presence of a catalytic amount of Pd(Ph3)4 yielded a novel trifunctional monomer 1,3,5-tris(alpha,beta,beta-trifluorovinyl)benzene (1).