“…Although fluorine-containing compounds have been widely used in the field of medicinal chemistry (Wang et al, 2014; Zhu et al, 2014; Zhou et al, 2016) due to their pharmacological properties, 4-CF 3 monobactams functionalized at C-3 are slightly exploited. The synthesis of 4-CF 3 monosubstituted β-lactams at the C-3 position are reported and prepared according to different ways: Staudinger reaction (Guanti et al, 1985; Abouabdellah et al, 1997; Petrik et al, 2011), ring expansion of aziridines via halogen-metal exchange (Decamps et al, 2014), Kinugasa reaction (Kowalski et al, 2016), and the Reformatsky reaction (Trulli et al, 2018). The alkylation reaction with non-fluorinated β-lactams using lithium amide, such as LDA and Li/KHDMS, to obtain the alkylated products at C-3 was well documented in the literature (Kuhlein and Jensen, 1974; Kamath and Ojima, 2012; Deketelaere et al, 2017).…”