Fluorinated molecules have a wide range of applications and are used as medicines,
agrochemicals and refrigerants and in smartphone liquid crystal displays, photovoltaic solar …

Metal‐catalyzed cross‐coupling reactions belong to the most important transformations in
organic synthesis. Copper catalysis has received great attention owing to the low toxicity …

Carbon-hydrogen (C− H) functionalization of pyridines is a powerful tool for the rapid
construction and derivatization of many agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, and materials …

Fluorine has emerged as a “magic element” in medicinal chemistry, crop, and materials
science. 1 Although fluorine is the most abundant halogen in the earth's crust, it is contained …

Transition-metal-catalyzed reactions have been studied since the very beginning of the past
century and represent a great success in organic chemistry, along with the birth and growth …

Over the past decade, the most significant, conceptual advances in the field of fluorination
were enabled most prominently by organo‐and transition‐metal catalysis. The most …

Method B 692 3.7. Selective Trifluoromethylation of Multi-Functional Substrates 693 3.8.
Enantioselective Trifluoromethylation 695 3.8. 1. Aldehydes and Ketones: With Cinchona …

Recent advances in catalysis have made the incorporation of fluorine into complex organic
molecules easier than ever before, but selective, general and practical fluorination reactions …

Incorporation of the CF3 group into arenes has found increasing importance in drug
discovery. Herein, we report the first photoredox‐catalyzed cross‐coupling of aryl …

1. INTRODUCTION “All new is well-forgotten old”, the proverb goes. The current “fluorine
boom” 1 is news only to a novice in the field: the exceptional importance of fluorinated …