Cover Picture: Iodine Catalysis for C(sp³)–H Fluorination with a Nucleophilic Fluorine Source (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 34/2020)

Abstract

Just like a horse capturing a pawn to win its position in a chess game, nitrogen‐centered radical selectivity for hydrogen atom abstraction allows for a novel directed aliphatic C−H fluorination methodology. As described by D. Bafaluy, Z. Georgieva, and K. Muñiz in their Communication on page 14241, the unique and outstanding performance of halogen catalysis enables the use of simple fluoride as the fluorine source in a homogeneous approach to 1,3‐ and 1,4‐fluoroamines.