• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.1293-1296
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• 2009

A new series of N-substituted 2-n-butyl-3-fluoropyrroles were prepared by a simple one-pot reaction designed of retrosynthesis. $\alpha,\alpha-Difluoro-\gamma-iodo-\gamma$-(trimethylsilyl)propyl n-butyl ketone, a component precursor molecule to 2-n-butyl-3-fluoropyrroles, was prepared with Cu(0) catalyst. It reacted with various primary amines to yield N-substituted 2-n-butyl-3-fluoropyrroles. The products were synthesized via a one-pot reaction scheme between $\alpha,\alpha-Difluoro-\gamma-iodo-\gamma$-(trimethylsilyl) propyl n-butyl ketone and primary amines in excess ( $\geq$ 5 molar equivalence), which eliminate the need of KF required in obtaining n-butyl-1H-3-fluoropyrrole. The yield of products depended reversely on spatial bulkness around N-binding carbon.