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JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.2c00925
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- National Institute of General Medical Sciences [R35 GM124661]
- NIH Shared Instrumentation Grants [S10OD016360, S10RR024664]
- NSF Major Research Instrumentation Grants [9977422, 0320648]
- NIH Center Grant [P20GM103418]
- Vicki & Patrick F. Stone family
- National Science Foundation [CHE-1352663]
- NSF Phase-2 CCI, Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry [CHE-1102637]
- N.L. Tartar Summer Research Fellowship
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A Cu-based catalyst system was used to synthesize α,α-difluorinated ketone esters by coupling gem-difluoroalkenes with phenols under aerobic conditions. These compounds, which contain rare α,α-difluorinated ketone and α,α-difluorinated ether moieties, can serve as synthetic intermediates to access other useful fluorinated functional groups.
A Cu-based catalyst system convergently couples gem-difluoroalkenes with phenols under aerobic conditions to deliver alpha,alpha-difluorinated-alpha-phenoxyketones, an unstudied hybrid fluorinated functional group. Composed of alpha,alpha-difluorinated ketone and alpha,alpha-difluorinated ether moieties, these compounds have rarely been reported as a synthetic intermediate. Computational predictions and later experimental corroboration suggest that the phenoxy-substituted fluorinated ketone's sp(3)-hybridized hydrate form is energetically favored relative to the respective nonether variant and that perturbation of the electronic character of the ketone can further encourage the formation of the hydrate. The more facile conversion between ketone and hydrate forms suggests that analogues should readily covalently inhibit proteases and other enzymes. Further functionalization of the ketone group enables access to other useful fluorinated functional groups.
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