title: Removal of fluorine from and introduction of fluorine into polyhalopyridines: an exercise in nucleophilic hetarenic substitution.
abstract: Starting from six industrially available fluorinated pyridines, an expedient access to all three tetrafluoropyridines (2-4), all six trifluoropyridines (5-10), and the five non-commercial difluoropyridines (11-14 and 16) was developed. The methods employed for the selective removal of fluorine from polyfluoropyridines were the reduction by metals or complex hydrides and the site-selective replacement by hydrazine followed by dehydrogenation-dediazotation or dehydrochlorination-dediazotation. To introduce an extra fluorine atom, a suitable precursor was metalated and chlorinated before being subjected to a chlorine/fluorine displacement process.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, BCh, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Carla
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bobbio
authors.forename: Thierry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rausis
authors.forename: Manfred
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schlosser