Intermolecular Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Fluorocarbonylation of Unactivated Alkenes: Efficient Access to β-Fluorocarboxylic Esters.

A novel palladium-catalyzed intermolecular oxidative fluorocarbonylation of alkenes has been developed, in which employment of a cooperative process with electrophilic ArIF2 -meidated alkenes activation and palladium-catalyzed carbonylation is crucial for the successful catalytic transformation. The current transformation presents the first convenient method to generate β-fluorinated carboxylic acid derivatives under mild reaction conditions from simple alkenes with excellent regioselectivity.