BioCIS-CNRS, Faculté de Pharmacie-Paris Sud, rue J. B. Clément, F-92296 Châtenay-Malabry, France
Abstract:
Trifluoromethyl aldimines reacted with acetylides in toluene at −78 °C to provide propargyl amines in good yields. From a chiral trifluoromethyl aldimine, the propargyl amines were obtained with excellent diastereoselectivities (de >98%). Trifluoromethyl propargyl amines could be further converted into difluoromethyl imines under basic conditions.