Daniel J. Leng, Conor M. Black and Graham Pattison
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2016,14, 1531-1535
DOI:
10.1039/C5OB02468D,
Communication
Difluoromethyl ketones are an under-studied class of ketones which have great potential as useful building blocks for materials and drug design. Here we report a simple and convenient synthesis of this class of compounds via a one-pot difluorination/fragmentation of 1-trifluoromethyl-1,3-diketones which should now allow the chemistry of difluoromethyl ketones to be fully developed.