Electrochemical intermolecular trifluoromethylimination of alkenes

Abstract

In this paper, we report the electrochemical trifluoromethylimination of olefins in which cheap and readily available sodium triflinate serves as a precursor for the trifluoromethyl radical, and imines of diaryl ketones serve as substitutes for amines, and the products obtained are readily hydrolyzed under acidic conditions to primary amine compounds, a class of compounds that do not readily survive electrochemical oxidation conditions.