“…Also, very importantly, DAST works best on aliphatic alcohols, especially benzylic alcohols like three of the four examples used in this paper, and it does not deoxyfluorinate phenols. Future efforts are aimed toward expanding the range of metabolites that can be converted to their fluoro substituted analogs, exploring other fluorination reagents for this purpose (Al-Maharik and O'Hagan, 2011;Tang, et al, 2011;Fujimoto and Ritter, 2015;Nielsen, et al, 2015), investigating the utility of other sources of P450 activity (e.g., liver microsomes) for the enzymatic portion of the procedure, and working toward generating multiply fluorinated analogs from secondary metabolites possessing more than one hydroxyl group. Furthermore, the methodology described in the paper has utility in diversification of lead molecules in order to impact other properties critical in drug discovery, such as potency, selectivity, DDI, and distribution properties.…”