“…C-Adaman-tylation was performed in boiling diethyl ether in dry oxygen-free nitrogen atmosphere with 1.5 ± 2-fold excess of a diketone for 1 ± 2 h, it required no catalyst. 208,209 The reactions of trifluoromethyl-substituted b-diketones 21 with 4,5-dichloro-1,2,3-dithiazolium chloride (Appel's salt, 141) in the presence of pyridine in dichloromethane at room temperature resulted in the corresponding 5-alkylidene-1,2,3-dithiazoles 142 ± 144. 210 In the case of hexafluoroacetylacetone (21b, R = CF 3 ), products 142 and 144 were isolated in the yields of 18% and 44%, respectively.…”