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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 6.
Published in final edited form as: Org Lett. 2010 Aug 6;12(15):3352–3355. doi: 10.1021/ol101154h

Table 1.

Yields of fluorinated arenes obtained from direct decomposition of salts 1-7.

Cmpd. C6D6
(ArF + 4FA)a
CD3CN
(ArF + 4FA)
1 76 17
2 (59 + 19) (2 + 1)
3 (59 + 25) (2 + 1)
4 (76 + 14) (2 + 1)
5 (41 + 10) (3 + 1)
6 (86 + 0) (33 + 0)
7 (93 + 5) 0
a

The numbers inside the parentheses indicate the percentage yields of the desired fluorinated arenes followed by the amount of 4-fluoroanisole (4FA) produced during the reaction. All solutions were heated at 140 °C for 15 minutes in sealed NMR tubes.