Abstract:
A process for producing a fluorinated alcohol from a fluoroalkyl halide through a one-stage reaction in high yield with high selectivity without using a highly toxic compound such as a heavy metal compound, which is difficult to handle or treat. The process, which is for producing a fluorinated alcohol represented by the general formula (2): Rf(A)OH (2) (wherein Rf represents C1-10 perfluoroalkyl and A represents a C3-10, linear or branched, saturated hydrocarbon group), is characterized by reacting a fluoroalkyl halide represented by the general formula (1): Rf(A)X (1) (wherein Rf and A are the same as defined above and X represents halogeno) with an alkali metal salt of 4-hydroxybutyric acid in Ϝ-butyrolactone as a solvent.
Abstract:
A method of separating a purified 2-fluoro-3-oxoalkylcarboxylic acid ester as a reaction product from a liquid reaction mixture obtained by fluorinating a 3-oxoalkylcarboxylic acid ester, characterized by comprising removing the hydrogen fluoride yielded as a by-product from the liquid reaction mixture and then separating the 2-fluoro-3-oxoalkylcarboxylic acid ester by distillation. Thus, a high-purity 2-fluoro-3-oxoalkylcarboxylic acid ester, which is useful as an intermediate for medicines and agricultural chemicals, can be separated from the liquid reaction mixture resulting from the fluorination of a 3-oxoalkylcarboxylic acid ester.
Abstract:
A process for the preparation of fluorinated dicarbonyl compounds of general formula (2), comprising reacting dicarbonyl compounds of general formula (1) with fluorine gas without any solvent in the presence of one or more acids selected from among trifluoromethanesulfonic acid, methanesulfonic acid, hydrofluoric acid, sulfuric acid, trifluoroacetic acid, boron trifluoride and sulfonated polymers wherein R?1, R2 and R3¿ are each hydrogen, alkyl or the like; and R?1a, R2a and R3a¿ are each the same as defined for R?1, R2 and R3¿, or alternatively when R?1, R2 and R3¿ are each hydrogen, the hydrogen may be replaced by fluorine, while when R?1, R2 and R3¿ are each optionally substituted alkyl, one or more hydrogen atoms on the α-position carbon atom to the CO-group may be replaced by fluorine. This process can give fluorinated dicarbonyl compounds in high yields and at high selectivity.
Abstract:
An ±-pentafluoroethyl acrylic acid derivative represented by the general formula [I]: [wherein R represents a hydrogen atom, a non-substituted or substituted aromatic ring, or a straight or branched alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon(s) which may have a cyclic moiety optionally substituted with at least one substituent (halogen atom, hydroxyl group, straight or branched alkoxy group having 1 to 10 carbon(s) which may have a cyclic moiety, non-substituted or substituted aromatic group)].
Abstract:
A process for preparing 2-fluoro-3-oxoalkylcarboxylic acid esters by fluorinating a 3-oxoalkylcarboxylic acid ester with fluorine gas, characterized in that the concentration of the 3-oxoalkylcarboxylic acid ester in the reaction fluid is kept at 3 wt% or above; and a process for purifying 2-fluoro-3- oxoalkylcarboxylic acid esters, characterized by washing a product of fluorination of a 3-oxoalkylcarboxylic acid ester with at least thrice as much water as the substrate to thereby obtain a purified 2-fluoro-3-oxoalkylcarboxylic acid ester in a high yield. According to these processes, high-purity 2-fluoro-3-oxoalkylcarboxylic acid esters useful as intermediates for drugs or agricultural chemicals can be efficiently prepared through inhibition of by-product formation or efficient purification of products of fluorination of 3-oxoalkylcarboxylic acid esters.