“…The first synthesis of a representative of 6-CF 3 -2-pyrones, ethyl 6-(trifluoromethyl)-2H-pyran-2-one-3-carboxylate (10%), was described in 1970 [7]. It was shown there that this 6-CF 3 -2-pyrone reacted with nonactivated alkene ethylene as a cyclic diene to give the corresponding cycloadduct [7]. Only twelve years later, in 1982, two other representatives of 6-CF 3 -2-pyrones, 3,4-dimethyl-5,6-bis(trifluoromethyl)-2H-pyran-2-one [8] and 4-hydroxy-3-(trifluoroacetyl)-6-(trifluoromethyl)-2H-pyran-2-one [9] were described.…”