SYNTHESIS Best Paper Award 2021: An I(I)/I(III) Catalysis Route to the Heptafluoroisopropyl Group: A Privileged Module in Contemporary Agrochemistry
Ryan Gilmour gives background information to his award-winning paper on a new catalytic approach to the heptafluoroisopropyl group synthesis.
The award-winning article presents a new way to access the heptafluoroisopropyl group, which is an emerging motif in drug discovery, agrochemistry and catalysis. The work of Ryan Gilmour and his group from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany) describes the use of a simple organocatalyst to promote the formal difluorination of α-trifluoromethyl-β-difluorostyrenes.
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