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Takeru Furuya¹, Christian A Kuttruff, Tobias Ritter

¹Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

Current Opinion in Drug Discovery & Development

|October 24, 2008

Summary

This review covers recent advances in carbon-fluorine bond-forming reactions, detailing common reagents and classifying reactions by type. It highlights applications in pharmaceutical synthesis and radiolabeling.

Area of Science:

Organic Chemistry
Medicinal Chemistry
Fluorine Chemistry

Background:

Carbon-fluorine bonds are crucial in pharmaceuticals and materials science.
Developing efficient fluorination methods remains a significant challenge in synthetic chemistry.

Purpose of the Study:

To present a comprehensive overview of recent carbon-fluorine bond-forming reactions.
To categorize these reactions based on reactivity and mechanism.
To showcase applications in synthesizing pharmaceuticals and radiolabeled compounds.

Main Methods:

Review of literature on recent fluorination reactions.
Classification of reactions into nucleophilic and electrophilic types.
Categorization into aliphatic and aromatic fluorination strategies.

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