Of hydrogen fluonde to alkenes

Mixtures of anhydrous hydrogen fluoride and tetrahydrofuran are successfully used as fluorinating agents to convert 1,1,2-trifluoro-l-allcen-3-ols, easily prepared from bromotrifluoroethene via lithiation followed by the reaction with aldehydes or ketones, to 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoro-2-alkenes The yields are optimal with a 5 1 ratio of hydrogen fluoride to tetrahydrofuran The fluorination reaction involves a fluonde lon-induced rearrangement (Sf,j2 mechanism) of allylic alcohols [65] (equation 40)... 

The hydrofluonnation of alkenes also occurs in the gas phase, generally at somewhat higher temperatures [J]. Huoroethane is obtained m yields as high as 98% at 100 to 160 C by reaction in the presence of minor amounts of higher ot-olefms [6], and 2-fluoropropane is prepared in greater than 90% yield at <.80 "C from hydrogen fluonde and propene in the presence of activated carbon [7]... 

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