Nucleophilic conjugate tri uoromethylation of chromones and activated alkenes under the action of Ruppert's reagentThis review summarizes data on the reactions of chromones and activated alkenes with trimethyl(tri uoromethyl)silane (Ruppert's reagent), which occures as a nucleophilic 1,4-tri uoromethylation with high regioselectivity and good yields. The most important chemical properties of the formed products are also considered.Key words: chromones; activated alkenes; nucleophilic 1,4-trifluoromethylation; trimethyl(tri uoromethyl)silane. Received: 28.02 .2017; accepted: 03.03.2017; published: 14.04 Sosnovskikh V. Ya., Roschenthaler G.-V. Chimica Techno Acta. 2017. Vol. 4, No. 1. P. 29-44. ISSN 2409-5613 DOI: 10.15826/chimtech.2017 30 Th e nucleophilic trifl uoromethylation of organic compounds is complicated by the instability of free trifl uoromethyl anion, which easily breaks down into the fl uoride anion and difl uorocarbene [1]. Th e use of trimethyl(trifl uoromethyl)silane (Ruppert's reagent) in the presence of fl uoride anion as an initiator allows to avoid this unwanted reaction and to realize the direct introduction of the CF 3 group to organic substrates. It is well known that the Ruppert's reagent interacts easily with both saturated and α, β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds via 1,2-nucleophilic addition with formation of the corresponding trifl uoromethyl carbinols [2][3][4]. It is important to note that in the case of α, β-unsaturated ketones, the formation of products of nucleophilic 1,4-trifl uoromethylation (Michael addition) was not observed (Scheme 1).Th e fi rst example of the conjugate trifl uoromethylation of α, β-enone system was discovered by us on the example of the reaction R F SiMe 3 (R F = CF 3 , C 2 F 5 ) with 2-trifl uoromethylchromones 1 [5,6]. Monitoring using 19 F NMR spectroscopy showed that chromones 1 in the presence of the nucleophilic initiator Me 4 NF (THF, 0 °C, 4 h) almost quantitatively and with high regioselectively react with CF 3 SiMe 3 towards the way of 1,4-addition, giving trimethylsilyl ethers 2 (the content in the reaction mixture of 1,2-addition products 3 does not exceed 5-10 %). When processing of the reaction mixture with diluted HCl only the products of 1,4-addition 2 are subjected to hydrolysis to give 2-trifl uoromethyl-2-perfl uoroalkylchroman-4-ones 4. As expected, when increasing of the length of the R F group to C 2 F 5 the regioselectivity of the reaction is reduced to 80-85 % (Scheme 2).Th e optimal conditions of 1,4-trifl uoromethylation (Me 4 NF, THF, 0 °C, 24 h) were used by us for the preparative synthesis of chromanones 4a-f, the yields of which ranged 50-86 % (Scheme 3) [6].Currently, this reaction represents the shortest and most eff ective way of synthesis of partially fl uorinated analogues of natural chromanones, chromanes and chromenes
31with gem-dimethyl group at the atom C(2). Th us, 4-oxo-2,2-bis(trifl uoromethyl)chroman-6-carbaldehyde 5a, an analogue of natural lactarochromal, metabolite of Lactarius deliciosus mushrooms [7], in wh...