Abstract:<p>The rapid, room-temperature defluorosilylation of trifluoromethane, a highly potent greenhouse gas, has been achieved using a simple silyl lithium reagent. An extensive computational mechanistic analysis provides a viable reaction pathway and demonstrates the unexpected electrophilic nature of LiCF<sub>3</sub>. The reaction generates a bench stable fluorinated building block that shows promise as an easy-to-use difluoromethylating agent. The difluoromethyl group is an increasingly importan… Show more
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