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Optimized Synthesis of a Pentafluoro-gem-diol and Conversion to a CF-Glucopyranose through Trifluoroacetate-Release
Robert A Hazlitt1, Jinu P John2, Que-Lynn Tran3
1Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 47907, USA; Department of BioMolecular Sciences, University of Mississippi, Mississippi, 38677, USA.
Abstract:
Pentafluoro-gem-diols are substrates that enable the synthesis of valuable difluoromethylene-containing organic molecules through the release of trifluoroacetate. Currently, only one synthetic strategy is available to assemble these important precursors. Herein, two new synthetic strategies to a complex pentafluoro-gem-diol are compared to the existing route, and an improved synthetic route has completed. Moreover, the first synthesis of a CF-glucopyranose was finished by a tandem trifluoroacetate-release halogenation/cyclization protocol.
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