Attempts to generate a difluorovinyl sulfone and to react it with cycl
opentadiene were hindered by the formation of hydrofluorination produc
ts. An alpha-carbamoyloxy-beta,beta-difluoroethenyl phenyl sulfone has
been prepared in high yield, but reactions with cyclopentadiene have
given predominantly mono-fluorinated cycloadducts, via reduction of th
e difluorinated compound in situ. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science
Ltd.