Synthesis and Characterization of Fluorinated Bisphenols and Tetraphenols via a Simple One-Pot Reaction

Abstract

Fluorinated bisphenols and tetraphenols have been prepared by the condensation reaction of trifluoromethyl activated ketones with simple bisphenols (including catechol, resorcinol, and hydroquinone) catalyzed by trifluoromethanesulfonic acid, in good yields.

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Keywords:

• Fluorinated bisphenols and tetraphenols
• hydroxyalkylation reaction
• superacid

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Funding from National Natural Science Foundation of China is gratefully acknowledged (Nos. 51103168 and 50903087).

Notes

^a Reaction conditions were not optimized;

^b Yields were not optimized.