Trifluoroacetamides from amino alcohols as nucleophilic trifluoromethylating reagents

Abstract

Both non-enolizable and enolizable carbonyl compounds underwent nucleophilic trifluoromethylation by a new family of cheap and efficient trifluoroacetamide reagents derived from vic-amino alcohols (see picture). From an ecological and an economic viewpoint these represent a promising alternative to other known trifluoromethylation reagents.