Abstract
A highly efficient, operationally simple approach to trifluoromethyl ketones has been developed that builds on the use of a tandem process involving Claisen condensation and retro-Claisen C-C bond cleavage reaction. Enolizable alkyl phenyl ketones were found to react readily with ethyl trifuoroacetate under the promotion of NaH to afford trifluoroacetic ester/ketone exchange products, trifluoromethyl ketones, which were quite different from the general Claisen condensation products, β-diketones. This procedure uses readily available starting materials and can be extended to the preparation of perfluoroalkyl ketones in excellent yield.
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