Versatile application of trifluoromethyl triflate

AA Kolomeitsev, M Vorobyev, H Gillandt

Index: Kolomeitsev, Alexander A.; Vorobyev, Mikhail; Gillandt, Hartmut Tetrahedron Letters, 2008 , vol. 49, # 3 p. 449 - 454

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Abstract

Hydrolytically stable and easy to handle trifluoromethyl triflate was found to be a liquid reservoir of 'masked'difluorophosgene. Anhydrous F− sources cleave the S–O bond in trifluoromethyl triflate yielding quantitatively the trifluoromethanolate salts, being useful trifluoromethoxy group carriers. Reaction of trifluoromethanolates with in situ generated from o-trimethylsilylphenyl triflate benzyne leads to (trifluoromethoxy) benzene and ...