H. Koroniak et al., UNUSUAL REACTIVITY OF POLY(TRIFLUOROMETHYL)BENZENES - SEMIEMPIRICAL REACTION MODELING, Journal of molecular structure, 351, 1995, pp. 187-195
The reaction of methyllithium with 1,3,5-tris(trifluoromethyl)benzene,
1, 1,2,4,5-tetrakis(trifluoromethyl)benzene, 2, and 1,2,4-tris(triflu
oromethyl)benzene, 3, was analyzed using the semiempirical package MOP
AC 6. It was shown that formation of lithium-hydrogen exchange product
s are favoured only in the case of compound 1, whereas in the case of
2 and 3 the major products were those of nucleophilic substitution.