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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 9.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2011 Jan 6;133(5):1428–1437. doi: 10.1021/ja108211m

Table 1.

Fluorination of alcohols.

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Entry X Ar Y Product Yield (%)a
1 N(4-Ns)b Ph NH 52 44
2 N(4-Ns) 3-(OCH3)-Ph NH 53 88
3 N(4-Ns) 4-(OCH3)-Ph NH 54 43
4 N(4-Ns) 4-(OCH2CO2Et)-Ph NH 55 61
5 NCH3 3-(OCH3)-Ph NCH3 56 71
6 O Ph O 57 97
7 S Ph S(O)2c 58 28
a

Isolated yield over one or two steps.

b

Ns = nitrobenzene sulfonyl.

c

After oxidation with m-CPBA