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A xanthate transfer radical process for the introduction of the trifluoromethyl group
F Bertrand1, V Pevere, B Quiclet-Sire
1Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, C.N.R.S., 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Organic Letters
|March 30, 2001
Abstract:
[reaction: see text]. S-Trifluoromethyl xanthates efficiently add to unactivated alkenes by a radical mechanism to give adducts with a trifluoromethyl group at the least hindered terminus of the olefin.