Abstract

Three racemic α-fluorinated benzyl β-ketoesters have been synthesized by electrophilic fluorination with Selectfluor™. They were submitted to our well established palladium-mediated cascade reaction (deprotection, decarboxylation and protonation of the resulting enolic species) producing optically active α-fluoro ketones. With benzyl 2-fluoro-1-tetralone-2-carboxylate as substrate, (S)-(−)-2-fluoro-1-tetralone with up to 65% enantiomeric excess was obtained using quinine as the chiral base and Pd/C type 807104 from Merck as the heterogeneous catalyst.

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