posted on 2016-02-19, 08:44authored byFlorent Larnaud, Julien Malassis, Emmanuel Pfund, Bruno Linclau, Thierry Lequeux
Convenient access to homochiral fluoroalkenes is described via a Julia–Kocienski olefination reaction. The required homochiral fluorosulfone is synthesized by a Mitsunobu reaction from readily available enantiopure secondary alcohols.