In fluonnation

In fluonnated isocyanide dihalides and imidoyl halides the halogens are replaced by alkoxyls [19 20, 21] (equabon 18)... 

As indicated in equation 2 [5, 6, 7. S], rearranged products are sometimes observed during the addition An extensive study of the fluonnation of diphen-ylacetylenes with fluorine reveals complexproduct mixtures that include rearrange ment products [9]... 

Although fluonnation of peroxoanions [S2] has been examined, the major emphasis in the fluonnation of oxygenated material is the preparation offhioroxy compounds The simplest, trifluoromethyl hypofluorite, can be prepared almost quantitatively by the action of fluorine on carbonyl fluoride (fluorophosgene) in the presence of various catalysts [Si, 84] Addition of fluorine to trifluoroacetic acid [S5] or its sodium salt [S6] gives rise to FjCF(OF)2 Long-chain fluoroxy compounds can also... 

Xenon difluoride has been used to oxidize a number of antimony compounds [102, 109] in yields ranging from 73 to 98%. Elemental fluorine oxidized tris(pen-tafluorophenyl)stibine to tris(pentafluorophenyl)stibine difluoride in 98% yield [706]. Oxidative fluonnation of stibines has also been accomplished with iodine pentafluoride [707]. 

Perfluorinated organic bromides can be oxidatively fluonnated with elemental fluorine to derivatives containing tn- [124] and pentavalent [/25 126 127] bromine in yields up to 42% Perfluoroheptylbromine tetrafluoride has been used to fluonnate double bonds in halogenated alkenes [127]... 

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)... 

Deep fluonnation using the La-Mar technique was carried out on polymers such as polyethylene and polypropylene [M], on polyethers [19, 20, 21], and on polyesters subsequently treated with sulfur Cetrafluoride [22] Deep fluorinations carried out under conditions producing limited fragmentation produced oligomeric perlluoropolyethers from powdered polyethylene oxide [23] Deep fluorinations earned out in the limited presence of molecular oxygen result in the conversion of... 

The simplest method for obtaining selective fluonnation is to conduct reactions under conditions that invigorate the electrophilicity of fluorine In practice this method entails the creation of anionic or strongly nucleophilic reactive centers on substrate molecules while suppressing or reducing the tendency toward radical attack Numerous examples of seleetive fluorine attack on carbanionic, amido and carboxylato species are documented Especially abundant is alpha fluonnation of nitroalkanes in polar solvents [42 43, 44, 45 46] (equations 10-14)... 

Selective fluonnation in polar solvents has proved commercially successful in the synthesis of 5 fluorouracil and its pyrimidine relatives, an extensive subject that will be discussed in another section Selective fluonnation of enolates [47], enols [48], and silyl enol ethers [49] resulted in preparation of a/phn-fluoro ketones, fieto-diketones, heta-ketoesters, and aldehydes The reactions of fluorine with these functionalities is most probably an addition to the ene followed by elimination of fluonde ion or hydrogen fluoride rather than a simple substitution In a similar vein, selective fluonnation of pyridmes to give 2-fluoropyridines was shown to proceed through pyridine difluondes [50]... 

The high reactivity of N-H bonds has also been exploited to produce N-F denvatives without significant substitution on neighbonng C-H bonds, Diethyl-phosphoramidates of ammonia, alkylammes, and a,polar solvents to produce difluoroamine [57], N,N-difluoroalkylamines, and a,to-bis(At,7V-difluoroamino)alkanes [52] Acetamide undergoes fluonnation to give modest yields of N,N difluoroacetatnide and acetyl fluonde when fluorinated... 

The product from fluonnation of sodium acetate is acetyl hypofluorite [64], which IS isolated and characterized [65] The value of this reagent lies in its relative mildness, because it reacts cleanly with most olefins adding the elements of acetoxyl and fluorine [66] Tnfluoroacetyl hypofluorite adds cleanly only to benzylic or electron-rich double bonds... 

Electrochemical fluonnation ot N,N dialkylammo-substituted carboxylic acids as their methyl esters produces the analogous perfluonnated tertiary amine carboxylic acid derivatives in 18-30% yields as well as cyclic amine ethers [JOO]... 

Considerable differences are evident in the results of fluonnations of toluene With potassium tetrafluorocobaltate at 340 C [25] and with cesium tetra-flnorocobaitate at 320 C [29] (Table 2)... 

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... 

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],... 

Af-Fluorobis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide is also effective in the mono-fluonnation of ester and amide enolates, and of neutral dicarbonyl compounds. Excellent stereoselectivity is observed [48, 80, 81] (equations 39-41)... 

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)... 

Silyl enol ethers are fluonnated in high yields with xenon difluoride [62 93, 94 95] Applications of this reaction to the preparation of fluonnated... 

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