Chlorodifluoromethane (ClCF2H), an inexpensive and abundant industrial raw material, represents an ideal and straightforward reagent for introducing the difluoromethyl group. However, efficient approaches for activation of the typically inert ClCF2H are limited. Now, ClCF2H is employed via a difluorocarbene pathway for palladium-catalysed difluoromethylation of arylboronic acids with broad substrate scope.
- Zhang Feng
- Qiao-Qiao Min
- Xingang Zhang