Trifluoroacetate compounds Metal trifluoroacetates, specific

Thallium carboxylates, particularly the acetate and trifluoroacetate, which can be obtained by dissolution of the oxide in the acid, are extensively used in organic chemistry.14 Both Tl metal and Tl1 salts such as the acetylaceton-ate also have specific uses. One example is the use of thallium(m) acetate in controlled bromination of organic substances such as anisole. The trifluoroacetate will directly thallate (cf. aromatic mercuration, Section 18-9) aromatic compounds to give aryl thallium ditrifluoroacetates, e.g., C6H5Tl(OOCCF3)2. It also acts as an oxidant, inter alia converting para-substituted phenols into p-quinones. 

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