“…The most commonly used and cheapest fluorinated alcohols are 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol (TFE) and 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP), which are available on a commercial scale and with a relatively low toxicity [29][30]. These alcohols display interesting properties, such as solvent, co-solvent, or additives in various catalytic processes and consequently they are often used in studies of peptide and protein structure [31], solvolysis [32][33][34][35], their effect on various organic transformations [36][37][38][39][40][41] and notably the activation of hydrogen peroxide for oxidation, epoxidation and the Baeyer-Villiger rearrangement [42][43][44][45][46][47][48]. In continuation of our effort towards the development of efficient synthetic procedures for multicomponent reactions, we turned our attention towards the synthesis of 1,4-dihydropyridines and polyhydroquinoline derivatives.…”