Studies on Organic Fluorine Compounds. III. Conversion of Alcohols to Fluorides by Difluorotriphenylphosphorane

Abstract

The reactions of difluorotriphenylphosphorane with alcohols were studied, and the former substance was found to be an excellent one-step flourinating reagent for substituting the hydroxyl group of primary and secondary alcohols. When more than one mole equivalent of alcohols were added to the reagent, the corresponding ethers were also obtained.