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Pure Appl. Chem., Vol. 72, No. 9, pp. 1685-1689, 2000.

 

 

Ring constructions by the use of fluorine substituent as activator and controller*

Junji Ichikawa

Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

Abstract: By using the properties of fluorine such as electronic effects and leaving-group ability, two types of ring-forming reactions have been achieved starting from fluoroolefins: (i) fluorinated vinyl ketones with a vinyl and/or an aryl group, which undergo fluorine-directed and/or -activated Nazarov, Friedel-Crafts, and tandem cyclizations in their combination to construct highly functionalized and fused ring systems and (ii) gem-difluoroolefins bearing a nucleophilic center on the carbon d to the flourines undergo intramolecular substitution for the fluorine via "anti-Baldwin" 5-endo-trig closures leading to ring-fluorinated heterocycles. Throughout these reactions, fluorines function as an activator of the substrates and a controller over the reaction pathways.

*Lecture presented at the 13th International Conference on Organic Synthesis (ICOS-13), Warsaw, Poland, 1-5 July 2000.

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