Yang-Ye Jiang, Gui-Yuan Dou, Kun Xu and Cheng-Chu Zeng
Org. Chem. Front., 2018,5, 2573-2577
DOI:
10.1039/C8QO00645H,
Research Article
The electrochemical trifluoromethylarylation of N-arylacrylamides catalyzed by bromide is described. The synthetic utility of this methodology is demonstrated by transition metal-free and external oxidant-free conditions, and low catalyst loading.