Nature Communications (May 2020)

Selective C-H trifluoromethoxylation of (hetero)arenes as limiting reagent

  • Zhijie Deng,
  • Mingxin Zhao,
  • Feng Wang,
  • Pingping Tang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16451-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Selective C-H trifluoromethoxylation of pyridines remains a formidable synthetic challenge. Here, the authors report a silver-mediated late-stage C-H trifluoromethoxylation of arenes and heteroarenes as limiting reagents with trifluoromethoxide anion.