“…The preparation of trifluoromethylpyrazoles from hydrazine and fluorinated 1,S-diketones has been sparsely reported (l,2). In continuation of work on the preparation of new fluorinated nitrogen heterocycles (3,4), this laboratory has extended this reaction to the fluorinated hydrazinopyridines. I t was found that when 4-trifluoromethyl-2hydrazinopyridines (IV, Table 111) were reacted with fluorinated 1 ,3-diketones having the general structure CP3COCH2COKI, where K 1 = CH3, C6H5, 2-C4H3S (2thienyl) or 2-C4 H 0(2-furyl), cyclizations occurred giving, in most cases, the desired pyrazole compounds (Va-j, Table IV).…”