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N-Fluoropyridinium Salt Electrophilic Fluorination for Preparing Alkyl Fluorides

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Introduction

Fluorinated organic compounds have increasingly attracted much interest from chemists particularly in the fields of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and specialty chemicals such as liquid crystals, because the fluorine atom often greatly changes the chemical and physical properties of the parent compounds owing to the characteristic features of fluorine such as the highest electronegativity (4.0), the smallest van der Waals radius (1.35 Å) next to hydrogen atom, and strong C–F bond (116 kcal/mol), which markedly differ from other halogens.

In the mid-1980s, N-fluoropyridinium salts (Fig. 1a), so-called Umemoto’s reagents, were developed as the first thermally stable, non-hygroscopic, easy-to-handle, and reactive electrophilic fluorinating reagents by Umemoto and his co-workers [1]. It was a breakthrough that the reagents made it possible to fluorinate a wide range of nucleophilic substrates using the standard glassware reactors without any special techniques. Before that,...

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Kawada, K. (2020). N-Fluoropyridinium Salt Electrophilic Fluorination for Preparing Alkyl Fluorides. In: Hu, J., Umemoto, T. (eds) Fluorination. Synthetic Organofluorine Chemistry. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1855-8_21-2

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