Synthesis of novel enantiopure fluorinated building blocks from acyclic chiral allylsilanes.

[reaction: see text] Homochiral beta-fluorinated gamma,delta-unsaturated carboxylic acids with an allylic fluorinated stereogenic center are available from the corresponding enantiopure allylsilanes. The key step for introduction of the fluorine substituent is an electrophilic fluorodesilylation reaction carried out in the presence of Selectfluor. Reduction of the resulting beta-fluorinated pentenoic acid into the corresponding fluorinated alcohol was also performed leading to the formation of an enantiopure second-generation fluorinated building block.

Electrophilic fluorodesilylation of allenylmethylsilanes: a novel entry to 2-fluoro-1,3-dienes.

[reaction: see text] Various fluorodienes were prepared by treatment of the corresponding allenylmethylsilanes with Selectfluor. This is the first route to these compounds not based on the use of a fluorinated building block. The reaction allows the preparation of 2-fluoro-1,3-dienes with several substitution patterns, including di- and trisubstituted compounds.

Highly active oxime-derived palladacycle complexes for Suzuki-Miyaura and Ullmann-type coupling reactions.

Oxime-derived chloro-bridged palladacycles 12 and 13 are efficient complexes for the Suzuki-Miyaura reactions of aryl-, allyl-, and benzyl halides with arylboronic acids. The isolated catalysts are thermally stable, not sensitive to air or moisture, and easily accessible from inexpensive starting materials. The reaction can be performed under aerobic conditions with aryl bromides and chlorides, displaying turnover numbers (TON) of up to 5 x 10(5) and turnover frequencies (TOF) of up to 198 000 h(-1) for aryl bromides.