Asymmetric construction of stereogenic carbon centers featuring a trifluoromethyl group from prochiral trifluoromethylated substrates

J Nie, HC Guo, D Cahard, JA Ma - Chemical reviews, 2011 - ACS Publications
Organofluorine chemistry is an area of tremendous expansion. 1 The field of applications is
impressively wide in scope and has the potential to concern all fields of society. Indeed …

α-Trifluoromethylated carbanion synthons

K Uneyama, T Katagiri, H Amii - Accounts of chemical research, 2008 - ACS Publications
Trifluomethylated organic compounds often have properties that make them suitable for
diverse applications, including materials science, agrochemistry, and pharmaceutical …

Enantioselective synthesis of secondary β-trifluoromethyl alcohols via catalytic asymmetric reductive trifluoroalkylation and diastereoselective reduction

BB Wu, J Xu, KJ Bian, Q Gao… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Fluorinated motifs are frequently encountered in drugs and agrochemicals. Incorporating
fluorine-containing motifs in drug candidates for lead optimization in pharmaceutical …

Direct catalytic asymmetric Mannich-type reaction of α-and β-fluorinated amides

L Brewitz, FA Arteaga, L Yin, K Alagiri… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The last two decades have witnessed the emergence of direct enolization protocols
providing atom-economical and operationally simple methods to use enolates for …

Use of α-trifluoromethyl carbanions for palladium-catalysed asymmetric cycloadditions

BM Trost, Y Wang, CI Hung - Nature Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
The development of new methodologies that enable chemo-and stereoselective
construction of fluorinated substituents, such as the trifluoromethyl (CF3) group, plays an …

Cu/Pd Synergistic Dual Catalysis: Asymmetric α‐Allylation of an α‐CF3 Amide

A Saito, N Kumagai, M Shibasaki - … Chemie International Edition, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the burgeoning demand for fluorine‐containing chemical entities, the construction of
CF3‐containing stereogenic centers has remained elusive. Herein, we report the strategic …

Catalytic Generation of α-CF3 Enolate: Direct Catalytic Asymmetric Mannich-Type Reaction of α-CF3 Amide

L Yin, L Brewitz, N Kumagai… - Journal of the American …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The introduction of the CF3 unit is a common strategy for modifying pharmacokinetic
properties and slowing metabolic degradation in medicinal chemistry. A catalytic and …

Recent Advances in the One‐Step Synthesis of Distally Fluorinated Ketones

Y Zeng, C Ni, J Hu - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Fluorinated ketones are intriguing compounds in synthetic chemistry and life science‐
related fields. The development of efficient methodologies to obtain these compounds is of …

Copper (I)/Ming-Phos-catalyzed asymmetric intermolecular [3+ 2] cycloaddition of azomethine ylides with α-trifluoromethyl α, β-unsaturated esters

B Xu, ZM Zhang, S Xu, B Liu, Y Xiao, J Zhang - ACS catalysis, 2017 - ACS Publications
The employment of α-trifluoromethyl α, β-unsaturated esters as dipolarophiles pose
considerable challenge due to expeditious defluorination and intrinsic steric hindrance. The …

Catalytic asymmetric construction of CF3-substituted chiral sp3 carbon centers

K Hirano - Synthesis, 2022 - thieme-connect.com
Due to the unique steric and electronic nature of the fluorine atom, organofluorine
compounds have received significant attention in the fields of pharmaceuticals and …