Fluoroalkyl Amino Reagents for the Introduction of the Fluoro(trifluoromethoxy)methyl Group onto Arenes and Heterocycles

Fluoroalkyl amino reagents 1a and 2a have been developed from commercially available trifluoromethyl trifluorovinyl ether via a hydroamination reaction with diethylamine or dimethylamine. These reagents can be activated by treatment with a Lewis acid and subsequently used as a mono- or dielectrophile for the introduction of the fluoro­(trifluoromethoxy)­methyl group, either in Vilsmeier-type acylations of aromatic substrates or in the synthesis of fluorinated pyrazoles from CH-acidic substrates and of bis-fluorinated pyrazoles, all being important building blocks for medicinal and agricultural chemistry.