Trifluoromethyl arenes are amongst the commonly encountered fluorinated substructures in pharmaceutical, agrochemical, and material sciences. Herein, the authors report a deoxytrifluoromethylation/aromatization strategy that converts readily available cyclohexan(en)one substrate into highly substituted trifluoromethyl arenes.
- Pankaj Bhattarai
- Mohammed K. Abd El-Gaber
- Ryan A. Altman