α-(Trifluoromethyl)styrene and its derivatives have found wide applications in the fields of pharmaceuti-cals,agrochemicals,and advanced materials.They are also versatile trifluoromethyl-containing building blocks fo...α-(Trifluoromethyl)styrene and its derivatives have found wide applications in the fields of pharmaceuti-cals,agrochemicals,and advanced materials.They are also versatile trifluoromethyl-containing building blocks for the preparation of various trifluoromethyl-containing,fluorine-containing or nonfluorinated compounds.Recently,great efforts have been made to develop diverse reactions for rapidly accessing a wide range of valuable gem–difluoroalkenes and gem–difluoroalkylated compounds via defluorinative re-action or the defluorinative ipso-functionalization reaction ofα-(trifluoromethyl)styrenes,respectively.In contrast,α-(trifluoromethyl)styrenes remain notably underdeveloped with respect to their use in cycload-dition and hydroaddition reaction with retaining of three C–F bonds.This short review herein is aimed to summarize the recent progress on the cycloaddition and hydroaddition reaction including nucleophilic,radical and transition metal-catalyzed addition ofα-(trifluoromethyl)styrenes without accompanying de-fluorination.展开更多
基金support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21472043)
文摘α-(Trifluoromethyl)styrene and its derivatives have found wide applications in the fields of pharmaceuti-cals,agrochemicals,and advanced materials.They are also versatile trifluoromethyl-containing building blocks for the preparation of various trifluoromethyl-containing,fluorine-containing or nonfluorinated compounds.Recently,great efforts have been made to develop diverse reactions for rapidly accessing a wide range of valuable gem–difluoroalkenes and gem–difluoroalkylated compounds via defluorinative re-action or the defluorinative ipso-functionalization reaction ofα-(trifluoromethyl)styrenes,respectively.In contrast,α-(trifluoromethyl)styrenes remain notably underdeveloped with respect to their use in cycload-dition and hydroaddition reaction with retaining of three C–F bonds.This short review herein is aimed to summarize the recent progress on the cycloaddition and hydroaddition reaction including nucleophilic,radical and transition metal-catalyzed addition ofα-(trifluoromethyl)styrenes without accompanying de-fluorination.
