Selective Fluoroalkylations with Fluorinated Sulfones, Sulfoxides, and Sulfides

By courtesy of:
G.K.Surya Prakash, Jinbo Hu
Accounts of Chemical Research, 2007
and some papers:
Stereoselective Monofluoromethylation of Primary and Secondary Alcohols by Using a Fluorocarbon Nucleophile in a Mitsunobu Reaction
G. K. Surya Prakash,* Sujith Chacko, Steevens Alconcel, Timothy Stewart, Thomas Mathew, and George A. Olah*

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 4933 –4936
Stereoselective Difluoromethylenation Using Me3SiCF2SPh: Synthesis of Chiral 2,4-Disubstituted 3,3-Difluoropyrrolidines
Ya Li and Jinbo Hu*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 2489 –2492
A Remarkably Efficient Fluoroalkylation of Cyclic Sulfates and Sulfamidates with PhSO2CF2H: Facile Entry into b-Difluoromethylated or b-Difluoromethylenated Alcohols and Amines
Chuanfa Ni, Jun Liu, Laijun Zhang, and Jinbo Hu*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 786 –789
Facile Synthesis of Chiral a-Difluoromethyl Amines from N-(tert-Butylsulfinyl)aldimines
Ya Li and Jinbo Hu*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 5882 –5886
Difluoromethyl Phenyl Sulfone, a Difluoromethylidene Equivalent: Use in the Synthesis of 1,1-Difluoro-1-alkenes
G. K. Surya Prakash,* Jinbo Hu, Ying Wang, and George A. Olah
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004, 43, 5203 –5206
Difluoromethyl Phenyl Sulfone as a Selective Difluoromethylene Dianion Equivalent: One-Pot Stereoselective Synthesis of anti-2,2-Difluoropropane-1,3-diols
G. K. Surya Prakash,* Jinbo Hu, Thomas Mathew, and George A. Olah
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2003, 42, 5216 –5219