“…Vicinal carbo-difluoromethylation of widely available alkenes, which results in the simultaneous formation of an alkyl–CF 2 H bond and a C–C bond, is an attractive, efficient, and potentially modular method for the synthesis of complex alkyl-difluoromethanes. Elegant work has recently been conducted by Dolbier 38 , Qing 39 , Xiao 40 , Gouverneur 41 , Zhang 42 , Chu 43 , and others 6 , 44 for the difluoromethylation of alkenes by harnessing the reactivity of an in situ generated difluoromethyl or difluoroalkyl radical. Although these state-of-the-art methods allow for the rapid difluoromethyl-functionalization of alkenes, nonetheless, in these reactions the CF 2 H group is generally attached to the terminal side of the alkenes, as dictated by the CF 2 H radical addition to the less sterically hindered site.…”