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3, 3‐Difluorocyclopropenes are readily available by the reaction of alkynes and difluorocarbene reagents, such as TMSCF₃, TMSCF₂Cl, and TMSCF₂Br [8d–f]. Based on the fact that 3, 3‐difluorocyclopropenes can be hydrolyzed to cyclopropenones in wet atmosphere and Lambert's elegant work in deoxychlorination of alcohols using 3, 3‐dichlorocyclopropenes [33], we successfully realized the use of safe and readily available difluorocarbene reagents for fluorination by means of 3, 3‐difluorocyclopropenes [11] (Scheme 1.21). To ensure the high efficiency of deoxyfluorination of aliphatic alcohols with 3, 3‐difluorocyclopropenes, the reaction should be carried out in a non‐glass vessel because the in situ‐generated HF will be consumed by the glassware (mainly SiO₂), thereby retarding the desired reaction.

The electronic nature of CpFluors is critical. For monoalcohols, utilizing electron‐rich aryl substituent on CpFluors to stabilize the cyclopropenium cation intermediate is a key issue (Scheme 1.21, path a). However, for 1, 2‐ and 1, 3‐diols, the reaction proceeds through cyclopropenone acetal intermediates, and is thus less dependent on the electronic nature of CpFluors (Scheme 1.21, path b). The most intriguing feature of CpFluors is that they are more sensitive to the electronic nature of alcohols than many other deoxyfluorination reagents; hence, selective fluorination of electron‐rich OH groups of longer diols (non‐1, 2‐ and 1,3‐diols) can be realized (Scheme 1.22).

Scheme 1.21 Deoxyfluorination of alcohols with 3,3‐difluorocyclopropenes.

Scheme 1.22 Selective deoxyfluorination of longer diols.

Based on our work on fluoroalkylation chemistry using fluorinated sulfones and sulfoximines, and also inspired by Doyle's work [34], we developed N‐tosyl‐4‐chlorobenzenesulfonimidoyl fluoride (SulfoxFluor) as a new bench‐stable and highly reactive deoxyfluorination reagent [12] (Scheme 1.23). The prominent features of SulfoxFluor include a rapid fluorination rate, fluorine economy, selective monofluorination at the least steric hindered site of diols, and high fluorination/elimination selectivity.

Scheme 1.23 Development of SulfoxFluor for deoxyfluorination.