Trifluoromethyl Radical Addition versus Radical Trifluoromethylation:Reversed Regioselectivity in Carbotrifluoromethylation of Alkenes

Professor Chaozhong Li's research group has long been interested in radicals in organic synthesis. They have developed a series of silver-catalyzed radical fluorination reactions since the year 2012.[1] In 2015, the research group joined the Key Laboratory of Organofluorine Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. I joined the Li group in the same year.