Kohei Fuchibe, Shumpei Watanabe, Go Takao and Junji Ichikawa
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2019,17, 5047-5054
DOI:
10.1039/C9OB00540D,
Paper
The insertion of 1,1-difluoroallenes was carried out to form a C–C bond exclusively on their central carbon. o-Bromophenyl-bearing 1,1-difluoroallenes underwent intramolecular insertion in the presence of a palladium catalyst. Regioselective C–C bond formation occurred to form a six-membered carbocycle, leading to pharmaceutically and agrochemically promising difluoromethylated naphthalenes.