Chemistry Letters, Vol.44, No.6, 821-823, 2015
Ring-opening Fluorination of Cyclobutanols and Cyclopropanols Catalyzed by Silver
Cyclobutanols and cyclopropanols underwent ring-opening fluorination upon treatment with Selectfluor in the presence of a substoichiometric amount of a silver salt. The reaction provides an efficient method to synthesize gamma- and beta-fluoroallcyl ketones.