Haloforms special

Hydrolytic fission of a carbon chain which occurs with a,a,a-trihalo carbonyl compounds and which affords haloforms is observed with certain fluorinated compounds. Although R3C —F bonds are not broken, it is convenient to mention the process here. A special example is the hydrolysis of hexafluoro-2-phenylpropan-2-ol (5) in which two moles of trifluoromethane are liberated. 73... 

Methyl ketones are oxidized smoothly by means of hypohalite in the haloform reaction (Sec. 16.11). Besides being commonly used to delect these ketones (Sec. 19.17), this reaction is often useful in synthesis, hypohalite having the special advantage of not attacking carbon-carbon double bonds. For example ... 

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