Aromatics fluonnation with

Polynuclear aromatics react with fluoroxy reagents to give high yields of ortho substitution products accompanied by varying yields of geminal difluoro products Thegeminal difluonnation occurs presumably by an addition-elimination mechanism [27 28, 29, 30, 31, 32] Unactivated aromatic systems are fluorinated in lower yield to give monofluonnated products (Table 1, entries 6 and 7) Examples of fluonnation of polynuclear systems [/5, 21, 25, 30, 32, 7 ] are shown m equations 7-10... 

Other well-known reactions are those offluorinated olefins with fluoride ion and negatively substituted aromatic compounds leading to the formation of per-fiuoroalkylated aromatic compounds The reaction may be considered an amonic version of a Fnedel Crafts process and can result in introduction of one or several perfluoroalkyl substituents [/ /] Aromatic substrates include substituted and unsuhstiluled perfiuorobenzenes [J3l, 212, 213, 214], fiuorinated heterocycles [131, 203, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223],perchlorinated heterocycles [224] (equation 44), and other activated aromatic compounds [225] (equation 45) The fluonnated olefins can be linear or cyclic [208] (equation 46)... 

The preparation of aromatic fluorine compounds may be accomplished by direct fluorination or by fluonnation of organometallic intermediates. Tlte ipso fluorination of an aryl organometallic derivative with a positive fluorine reagent allows control over the regioselectivity of the fluorination and offers advantages in the preparation of F-labeled materials [II, 50],... 

The fluorination of organometallics with Al-fluoroamide reagents has received Only limited attention. Grignard reagents, both aliphatic and aromatic, are converted to organofluonne compounds. Both the electron transfer and the Sf,j2 ntechamsms have been considered in these processes [SO, 81, 82], The reactions 0 exemplified in equation 46 [48, 69, 70, 71, 75] Organosilanes are also fluonnated [71] (equation 47)... 

Carboxylic acids react with xenon difluoride to produce unstable xenon esters The esters decarboxylate to produce free radical intermediates, which undergo fluonnation or reaction with the solvent system Thus aliphatic acids decarboxylate to produce mainly fluoroalkanes or products from abstraction of hydrogen from the solvent Perfluoro acids decarboxylate in the presence of aromatic substrates to give perfluoroalkyl aromatics Aromatic and vinylic acids do not decarboxylate [91] (equation 51)... 

Most aliphatic [95, 184, 185, 186, 187], aromatic [95 186,188], md heterocyclic [189,190] ketones react with DAST in the usual way to give geminal difluoro derivatives Fluonnation of cycloaliphatic ketones, in particular, is often accompanied by a spontaneous dehydrofluorination to form considerable amounts of... 

The presence of a tnalkylsUyl group in a fluonnated organic compound may be useful to direct further transformations of that matenal Yet m some instances it IS the fluonnated substituent that controls the reactions of the tnalkylsdyl group Contrary to predictions, treatment of tert-hnlyX 3-tnfluoromethyl-6-tnmethylsilyl-phenyl carbamate with rert-butyllithium results m metallation of one of the methyl groups attached to silicon rather than that of the aromatic nng [90] (equation 75)... 

A new thermal preparation ot fluorinated species is copyrolysis Copyrolysis of fluorinated compounds like perfluorobenzene, fluorinated aromatic anhydndes, and fluorinated heteroaromatics with tetrafluoroethylene or other fluonnated olefins is a useful method of preparing fluorinated olefins [88 89], functionalized fluoroaromatics [90 91 92, 93, 94, 95], fluonnated benzocycloalkanes [80, 96, 97, 98, 99, 700], fluorinated heterocycles [80, 93, 101, 102, 103], and fluonnated polycyclic compounds [104] (equations 19 and 20)... 

Almost all of the biomedical research done in the 25 years following the liquid-breathing work was conducted with commercially available fluorocarbons manufactured for various industnal uses by the electrochemical Simons process (fluonnation in a hydrofluoric acid solution) or the cobalt fluoride process (fluori-nation with this solid in a furnace at about 200 C) These processes tended to yield many by-products, partly because they were, to some extent, free radical reactions and partly because it was difficult to easily achieve complete fluonnation Aromatic hydrocarbons gave better products with the cobalt tnfluonde [73] method, whereas saturated hydrocarbons yielded better products with fluonnation using diluted or cooled gaseous fluorine (Lagow) Incompletely fluormated matenal was either... 

Acetyl hypofhiorite is very effective in the fluorination of the aryl-metal (Hg, Ge, or Si) bond, but yields are frequently low. With aryl silicon compounds some competition exists for replacement of an aromatic hydrogen [51, 52, 53, 54] (equations 25-27). Fluoroxytrifluoromethane fluonnates p-methoxypheny 1 mercuric acetate to give p-fluoroanisole in 86% yield [52]... 

Basic data coverage in this section commences with fluonnated methanes, ethanes, ethylenes, acrylates, aliphatic monofluondes (pnmary, secondary, and tertiary), and geminal difluondes (pnmary and secondary) The compilation continues with six categones of tnfluoromethylated compounds and finishes with aromatic fluondes 19F-NMR applications extend greatly beyond simple structure determination Six of these special topics are bnefly surveyed, including analytical NMR methods and biochemical NMR studies... 

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