“…The use of HMPA to effect N,Ndimethylamination of aromatic substrates has captured wide interest previously, for example, the reaction of HMPA with halogenated aromatics containing electron-withdrawing groups [9][10][11]. The synthetic usefulness of the N,N-dimethylamination of fluoroaromatics has been well documented [3,[12][13][14][15][16]. However, to the best of our knowledge, the reaction between HMPA and hexafluorobenzene or its derivatives has never been reported.…”