Facile radical trifluoromethylation of lithium enolates.
[reaction: see text] Highly basic lithium enolates are shown to be applicable to radical trifluoromethylation. The reaction is extremely fast, and the minimum reaction time is approximately 1 s.
Itoh
Yoshimitsu
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Department of Applied Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
Mikami
Koichi
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