文摘
The transition-metal-catalyzed direct C鈥揌 bond fluorination is an attractive synthetic tool toward the preparation of organofluorines. While many methods exist for the direct sp3 C鈥揌 functionalization, site-selective fluorination of unactivated sp3 carbons remains a challenge. Direct, highly site-selective and diastereoselective fluorination of aliphatic amides via a palladium-catalyzed bidentate ligand-directed C鈥揌 bond functionalization process on unactivated sp3 carbons is reported. With this approach, a wide variety of 尾-fluorinated amino acid derivatives and aliphatic amides, important motifs in medicinal and agricultural chemistry, were prepared with palladium acetate as the catalyst and Selectfluor as the fluorine source.