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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 May 3.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Commun (Camb). 2022 May 3;58(36):5490–5493. doi: 10.1039/d2cc01518h

Scheme 1.

Scheme 1

Synthesis of difluoroethanols 16 by hydroxymethylation from the in situ generation of formaldehyde and difluoroenolates, and synthesis of difluorodideuteroethanols 79 by hydroxydeuteromethylation (percent deuterium incorporation is listed in brackets). aStirred at rt. bStirred at 40 °C.