Ligand-Promoted Iron(III)-Catalyzed Hydrofluorination of Alkenes.
Yongtao XiePeng-Wei SunYuxin LiSiwei WangMengchun YeZhengming LiPublished in: Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) (2019)
An iron-catalyzed hydrofluorination of unactivated alkenes has been developed. The use of a multidentate ligand and the fluorination reagent N-fluorobenzenesulfonimide (NFSI) proved to be critical for this reaction, which afforded various fluorinated compounds in up to 94 % yield.