Naganaboina Naveen and Rengarajan Balamurugan
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2017,15, 2063-2072
DOI:
10.1039/C7OB00140A,
Paper
A facile method for the synthesis of α-fluoro-β-hydroxy ketones/α-fluoro-ynols from tertiary propargyl alcohols under electrophilic fluorination conditions using F-TEDA-BF4 has been presented. The products bear pharmaceutically important α-fluoro ketone, gem-diaryl and fluorohydrin moieties in the same molecule. Interestingly, this catalyst free protocol results in monofluorination.