Many trichloromethylarenes can be prepared by free radical chlorination of the corresponding methyl arenes.[8] Benzotrifluoride and its derivatives are precursors to dyes, pesticides, and solvents.
The McLoughlin-Thrower reaction (1968) is an early coupling reaction using iodofluoroalkanes, iodoaromatic compounds using copper.[12] In 1969 Kobayashi & Kumadaki adapted their protocol for trifluoromethylations.[13][14]
Trifluoromethyl sulfone (PhSO2CF3) and trifluoromethyl sulfoxide (PhSOCF3) can be used for trifluoromethylations of electrophiles[16]
Trifluoromethanesulfonyl chloride
Trifluoromethanesulfonyl chloride (or triflyl chloride, CF3SO2Cl) can be used to introduce a trifluoromethyl group to aromatic and heteroaromatic systems, including known pharmaceuticals such as Lipitor. The method is general and the conditions mild, requiring a photoredox catalyst and a light source at room temperature.[17]
Sodium trifluoromethanesulfinate
Sodium trifluoromethanesulfinate (CF3SO2Na) as a trifluoromethylation reagent was introduced by Langlois in 1991.[18] The reaction requires t-butyl hydroperoxide and generally a metal and proceeds through a radical mechanism. The reagent has been applied with heterocyclic substrates[19]
5-(Trifluoromethyl)dibenzothiophenium tetrafluoroborate, a common Umemoto reagent
Umemoto reagents are (trifluoromethyl)dibenzoheterocyclic salts, such as 5-(trifluoromethyl)dibenzothiophenium triflate and 5-(trifluoromethyl)dibenzothiophenium tetrafluoroborate.[20][21]
Trifluoromethyl-metal reagents
Many CF3-containing metal complexes have been prepared, and some are useful for trifluoromethylation.
Trifluoromethyl copper(I) reagents are more useful. These reagents are generated in situ by reaction of CF3I with copper powder in polar solvents.[22] Hg(CF3)2, prepared by decarboxylation of the trifluoroacetate, has proven useful for the trifluoromethylation of other metals,[23] although for low-temperature reactions it may prove useful to transmetallate to bis(trifluoromethyl)cadmium.[24]
The use of sodium trifluoroacetate in the presence of copper salts was introduced by Matsui in 1981. In the original scope the substrate was an aromatic halide and the metal salt copper(I)iodide.[25][26]
Comment on LiCF3
The reagent is CF3Li would seem to be an obvious reagent fo trifluoromethylations. Indeed, it can be generated by lithium-iodide exchange. Such solutions are however unstable even at low temperatures, degrading to lithium fluoride and difluorocarbene.
Reaction types
Aromatic coupling reactions
In coupling reactions between aromatic compounds and metal-trifluoromethyl complexes the metal is usually copper, Pd and Ni are less prominent.[1] The reactions are stoichiometric or catalytic. In the McLoughlin-Thrower reaction (1962) iodobenzene reacts with trifluoroiodomethane (CF3I) and copper powder in dimethylformamide at 150°C to trifluorotoluene. The intermediate in this reaction type is a perfluoromethyl-metal complex.
In nucleophilic trifluoromethylation the active species is the CF3− anion.[46] It was, however, widely believed that the trifluoromethyl anion is a transient species and thus cannot be isolated or observed in the condensed phase. Contrary to the popular belief, the CF3 anion, with [K(18-crown-6)]+ as a countercation, was produced and characterized by Prakash and coworkers.[47] The challenges associated with observation of CF3 anion are alluded to its strong basic nature and its tendency to form pentacoordinated silicon species, such as [Me3Si(CF3)2]− or [Me3Si(F)(CF3)]−.
The reactivity of fluoroform in combination with a strong base such as t-BuOK with carbonyl compounds in DMF is an example.[46] Here CF3− and DMF form an hemiaminolate adduct ([Me2NCH(O)CF3]K).[11][48][49][50]
trifluoromethylation using methyl fluorosulfonyldifluoroacetate.
In electrophilic trifluoromethylation the active trifluoromethyl donor group carries a positive charge.[52][53] Production of an CF3+ cation has been described as "extremely hard" [54] The first relevant reagent, a diaryl(trifluoromethyl) sulfonium salt (Ar2S+CF3SbF6−) was developed in 1984 by reaction of an aryltrifluoromethyl sulfoxide 1 with SF3+SbF6− followed by reaction with an electron-rich arene.[55] The reagent was used in trifluoromethylation of a thiophenolate. S-(trifluoromethyl)dibenzothiophenium tetrafluoroborate is a commercially available and known trifluoromethylation reagent based on the same principle first documented in 1990.[56][57] In this type of compound sulfur has been replaced by oxygen, selenium and tellurium. Examples of substrates that have been investigated are pyridine, aniline, triphenylphosphine and the lithium salt of phenylacetylene.
Another group of trifluoromethyl donors are hypervalent iodine(III)[58]–CF3 reagents for example 3,3-dimethyl-1-(trifluoromethyl)-1,2-benziodoxole.[59][60][61][62] Some of these are known as Togni reagents, such as Togni reagent II. Substrates are thiols, alcohols, phosphines, (hetero) arenes,[63] unactivated olefins[64] and unsaturated carboxylic acids.[65]
Trifluoromethylation at a thiol group using hypervalent iodine[63]
In asymmetric trifluoromethylation the trifluoromethyl group is added to the substrate in an enantioselective way.[66][67] Ruppert's reagent has been used for this purpose in an asymmetric induction approach to functionalise chiral amino acid derivates,[68]saccharides,[69] and steroids. Because Ruppert's reagent requires a tetraalkylammonium fluoride, chiral ammonium fluorides have been employed in asymmetric catalysis.[70][71] In the field of electrophilic trifluoromethylation an early contribution involved reaction of a metal enolate with a trifluoromethyl chalcogen salt in presence of a chiral boron catalyst.[72]
Enantioselective methods for the α-trifluoromethylation of carbonyls are available through enamine catalysis of aldehydes (photoredox[73] or iodonium[74]), copper catalysis of β-ketoesters,[75] and radical addition to zirconium enolates.[76]
The trifluoromethyl cation is a molecular cation with a formula of CF+ 3. It is a carbocation due to its positively charged carbon atom. It is part of the family of carbenium ions, with three fluorine atoms as substituents in place of its hydrogen atoms.[77]
Compared to methenium (the simplest carbenium ion), trifluoromethyl cation is more stable due to the presence of fluorine atoms. The fluorine atoms have lone pairs of electrons overlapping with the carbon atom. These electrons stabilize the positive charge of the central carbon atom, stabilizing the molecule as a whole. The overlap is effective due to the size of fluorine's p orbital in the molecule.[78]
While electron-donating fluorine lone pairs are present, it does not exist as its own.[clarification needed] The production of a CF+ 3 cation has been described as "extremely hard".
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