Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Organozinc pivalates for cobalt-catalyzed difluoroalkylarylation of alkenes

  • Xinyi Cheng,
  • Xingchen Liu,
  • Shengchun Wang,
  • Ying Hu,
  • Binjing Hu,
  • Aiwen Lei,
  • Jie Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24596-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Transition metal-catalyzed regioselective difunctionalizations of alkenes with two different functional groups are useful for preparing organic compounds, but the construction of two new C–C bonds is challenging. Here, the authors report cobalt-catalyzed regioselective difluoroalkylarylation of alkenes with solid arylzinc pivalates and difluoroalkyl bromides, through a cascade Csp3 ‒Csp3/Csp3 ‒Csp2 bond formation.