The Acidities of Nucleophilic Monofluoromethylation Reagents: an Anomalous Α‐fluorine Effect
Angewandte Chemie(2021)
摘要
AbstractFluorine incorporation into organic molecules is expected to lower the pKa of neighboring functionality via its strong electron‐withdrawing effect, and this strategy has been widely exploited in diverse disciplines. Herein, we report a striking anomalous α‐fluorine substitution effect on the α‐Csp3‐H acidity. We have experimentally measured the pKa values of a series of popular nucleophilic monofluoromethylating reagents α‐fluoro(phenylsulfonyl)methane derivatives as well as their C‐H analogues by Bordwell's overlapping indicator method in dimethyl sulfoxide solution. Contrary to expectations, we found that α‐fluorine substituent does not generally enhance but rather weaken the α‐Csp3‐H acidity of most (phenylsulfonyl)methane derivatives. DFT computations reproduce and provide insight into the anomalous α‐fluorine effect. A correlation was identified between the C‐H pKa of (phenylsulfonyl)methane derivatives and Mayr's nucleophilicity parameter (N) of the corresponding carbanions.
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Organofluorine Chemistry,Trifluoromethylation,Enantioselective Fluorination
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