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Exploring Structural Opportunities: The Regioflexible Substitution of 1,3-Difluorobenzene
Schlosser, Manfred,Heiss, Christophe
, p. 4618 - 4624 (2007/10/03)
To demonstrate the superiority of modern organometallic methods, the inexpensive starting material 1,3-difluorobenzene has been selectively converted into the three benzoic acids and all seven bromobenzoic acids containing the two fluorine atoms in homovicinal positions. The 2,6-difluorobenzoic acid (1) was prepared in a one-pot reaction consisting of direct metallation and carboxylation. The key step on the route to the bromobenzoic acid 4 was a deprotonation-triggered bromine migration from the 2- to the 4-position. All other products were attained through (2,6-difluorophenyl)triethylsilane (11). Consecutive deprotonation of the sites adjacent to the fluorine atoms, followed by appropriate electrophilic substitution, provided not only the acid 7 but also the dibromo and iodobromo derivatives 13 and 23. These in turn gave the isomers 14 and 24 upon base-mediated migration of the heaviest halogen, which made the acids 8 and 10 directly accessible. The regiocontrolled monodebromination of intermediate 14 afforded (4-bromo-2,6-difluoro)triethylsilane (15), which opened the route to the acids 3 and 5 (by carboxylation and protodesilylation) and to acid 9 (by carboxylation and bromodesilylation). Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2003.
