“…To date, synthetic strategies for the preparation of terminal difluoroolefins have been based on a few methods: (1) the lithiation of 1,1-difluoroethene and trapping of the intermediate with CO 2 , (2) the decarboxylation of bromodifluoromethylated malonate, (3) the dehydrofluorination of trifluorinated isobutyrate, and (4) the Wittig difluoromethylation of pyruvate . Moreover, the chemistry of terminal difluoroolefins, which do not undergo elimination to form fluoroolefins, has not been studied for the construction of regio- and stereocontrolled fluorinated materials, − except for indium-mediated allylation . Clearly, development of selective and/or specific synthetic methods for geometorical isomers and/or optically active β-difluoromethyl esters and/or acids remains an important synthetic challenge.…”