Ls. Kobrina et Aa. Bogachev, SYNTHESIS OF FLUORINE-CONTAINING ARYLACETIC ACIDS VIA THE DIELS-ALDERREACTION OF POLYFLUORINATED CYCLOHEXA-2,4-DIENONES WITH ACETYLENES, Journal of fluorine chemistry, 62(2-3), 1993, pp. 243-258
4,5,6-Pentafluoro-6-chloro-2,4-cyclohexadien-1-one (I) and chloro-2,4,
5,6-tetrafluoro-2,4-cyclohexadien-1-one (II) readily undergo the Diels
-Alder reaction with aryl- and alkyl-substituted acetylenes giving [241-cycloadducts in good yield. The latter undergo aromatization by nuc
leophilic agents under mild conditions to alpha-chlorophenylacetic aci
d derivatives containing two or three fluorine atoms in the aromatic r
ing.