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Kyosuke Kojima1, Shunya Senda1, Katsuhiko Ono1
1Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan.
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Regioselective halogenation of β-diketones at the γ-methyl groups was achieved by using their BF2 complexes. γ-Halogenation was performed using N-halosuccinimide (NXS) in dichloromethane with catalytic triethylamine. These reactions produced a series of mono-, di-, and trihalogenated compounds depending on the NXS reactivity and the BF2 complex structure. Hydrolysis of the reaction products afforded γ-halogenated β-diketones, which can be used as metal ligands and key compounds in functional materials.
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