Abstract
This article describes diverse and versatile reactions of trichloroacetic acid and its anhydride involving decarboxylation of trichloroacetate ion. The reactions are characterized by the behaviors of trichloromethyl anion generated by the decarboxylation, i. e. trichloromethylation and abstraction of chlorine cation. Attention has been made, in the main, to a description of authors' works in the reactions with Schiff bases, enamines and conjugated olefins, and the reactions of α-trichloromethylated amines.
