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We acknowledge financial support from ANR (ANR-15-CE29-0020-01, ACTIV-CF-LAN), CNRS, ICMR, Universit&#233; de Reims Champagne Ardenne, ENSCM and ICGM. We thank Carine Machado and Anthony Robert for help with EI-MS and NMR analysis.

1. Preparation of Starting Material Outside the Glovebox
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	<li>Prepare necessary equipment: oven-dried Schlenk tube with a magnetic stir bar, vacuum/inert gas line (argon or nitrogen), and magnetic stirrer.</li>
	<li>Prepare trifluoromethylated benzofulvene according to the literature13.</li>
	<li>Weigh out trifluoromethylated benzofulvene (177 mg, 0.65 mmol) and add into an oven-dried Schlenk tube equipped with a magnetic stir bar.</li>
	<li>Close the Schlenk tube with a plastic screw cap w...

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This protocol involves work with highly reactive, air and moisture sensitive lanthanide metals. Therefore, the whole reaction procedure must be carried out under dry inert gas, and all starting materials, including solvents, must be very clean and dried before use.
There are two advantages for the preparation of freshly filed metals over the purchase of already filed metals: (i) the purchase of pieces or ingots is considerably more economic and (ii) freshly filed metal is more reactive because...

Lanthanide metals have been sporadically used in organic synthesis since the late 1970s1. Initially, these strong reducing agents, with a redox potential Ln3+/Ln&#160;of approximately -2.3 V, were employed mainly in Birch-type reductions of aromatic compounds and pinacol coupling reactions. An increased availability and purity of lanthanide metals from the 1980s on, as well as the development of methodologies and equipment to handle air and moisture sensitive compounds led to new applications of lanthanide metals. The preparation of the widely used SmI2 directly from Sm metal and diiodoethane or iodine was a breakthrough in lanthanide chemistry2. In recent years, new reactivity patterns of lanthanide metals have been described, for example, the Barbier-type reaction of allylic halides with carbonyl compounds3, the reductive coupling reactions involving diaryl ketones4 or acyl chlorides5, selective cyclopropanation reactions6, and the combination of lanthanide metals with group 4 metallocenes7,8. These studies showed that lanthanide metals display a promising functional group tolerance and that their reactivity can vary along the lanthanide series, making them suitable reagents for fine-tuning reaction conditions in organic transformations.
Organolanthanide complexes and inorganic lanthanide salts have been studied in C-F activation reactions with aromatic and aliphatic carbon-fluorine bonds for over 40 years9,10,11. In 2014, the first report on C-F activation using elemental ytterbium metal appeared12. It showed the regioselective reaction of Yb with pentafluorobenzene to afford p-tetrafluorobenzene and YbF2. More recently, we have shown that various lanthanide metals can react with trifluoromethylated benzofulvenes in the presence of aluminum chloride to obtain &#949;,&#949;-difluoropentadienylmetal complexes that reacted selectively with a wide range of aldehydes to new difluoroalkenes (Figure 1)13. It turned out that the combination of dysprosium metal and aluminum chloride gave the highest yields and best selectivities. We herein present an extension of this work using nitroalkenes as electrophiles14, leading regioselectively to a new class of difluoroalkenes15.

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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;width:216px;">Dysprosium ingot</td>
			<td style="width:124px;">Strem</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">93-6637</td>
			<td style="width:167px;">Store under nitrogen/argon</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;width:216px;">Anhydrous aluminum chloride</td>
			<td style="width:124px;">Alfa Aesar</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">88488</td>
			<td>Store under nitrogen/argon</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;width:216px;">Iodine 99.5% for analysis</td>
			<td style="width:124px;">Across Organics</td>
			<td>212491000</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;width:216px;">THF GPR Rectapur</td>
			<td style="width:124px;">VWR Chemicals</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">28552.324</td>
			<td>Dried and distilled over Na/benzophenone before use</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;width:216px;">Glovebox</td>
			<td style="width:124px;">MBraun</td>
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			<td>Under nitrogen atmosphere</td>
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application of elemental lanthanides in the selective c-f activation of trifluoromethylated benzofulvenes providing access to various difluoroalkenes

The selective activation of one carbon-fluorine bond in polyfluorinated aromatic molecules or in trifluoromethyl-containing substrates offers the possibility of accessing unique fluorine-containing molecules, which are difficult to obtain by other synthetic pathways. Among various metals, which can undergo C-F activation, lanthanides (Ln) are good candidates as they form strong Ln-F bonds. Lanthanide metals are strong reducing agents with a redox potential Ln3+/Ln&#160;of approximately -2.3 V, which is comparable to the value of the Mg2+/Mg&#160;redox couple. In addition, lanthanide metals display a promising functional group tolerance and their reactivity can vary along the lanthanide series, making them suitable reagents for fine-tuning reaction conditions in organic and organometallic transformations. However, due to their oxophilicity, lanthanides react readily with oxygen and water and therefore require special conditions for storage, handling, preparation, and activation. These factors have limited a more widespread use in organic synthesis. We herein present how dysprosium metal - and by analogy all lanthanide metals - can be freshly prepared under anhydrous conditions using glovebox and Schlenk techniques. The freshly filed metal, in combination with aluminum chloride, initiates the selective C-F activation in trifluoromethylated benzofulvenes. The resulting reaction intermediates react with nitroalkenes to obtain a new family of difluoroalkenes.

This lanthanide-mediated C-F activation procedure followed by reaction with nitroalkenes provides readily access to new difluoroalkenes containing a nitro group. A plausible reaction mechanism is depicted in Figure 2. In contrast to our previous work using aldehydes as electrophiles (Figure 1)13, nitroalkenes afford the 1,3-disubstituted indene products regioselectively. This may be explained by the greate...

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Application of Elemental Lanthanides in the Selective C-F Activation of Trifluoromethylated Benzofulvenes Providing Access to Various Difluoroalkenes

This protocol describes the preparation of elemental lanthanides under inert atmosphere and their application in a selective C-F activation process involving trifluoromethylated benzofulvenes.

The selective activation of one carbon-fluorine bond in polyfluorinated aromatic molecules or in trifluoromethyl-containing substrates offers the ...

This method can provide new insights into the reduction chemistry of lanthanide metals in the field of organic chemistry, as demonstrated in this case in C-F activation reactions. The main advantage of this technique, which can be applied to all lanthanide metals, is that it provides highly reactive metals for a wide range of organic and organo-metallic reactions. Prior to the procedure, synthesize the desired trifluoromethylated benzofulvene and nitroalkene.The day before the reaction, distill at list two milliliters of anhydrous tetrahydrofuran, and store it over activated molecular sieves. Also, transfer into a nitrogen or argon-filled glove box a metal file, pliers, aluminum foil, a shallow polypropylene container, an oven-dried five milliliter test tube, and two rubber septa. To begin, measure out 65 millimoles of the trifluoromethylated benzofulvene, and place it in an oven-dried 50 milliliter Schlenk tube, equipped with an oven-dried magnetic stir bar.Close the Schlenk tube with a PTFE-lined plastic screw cap. Clamp the tube over a magnetic stirrer, and connect the side-arm to a Schlenk line. Start stirring at about 700 to 800 rpm, and open the tube to vacuum.Dry the benzofulvene under vacuum for ten minutes, and then vent the tube with nitrogen or argon gas. Repeat the drying process twice more, for a total of three times. Then, fill the tube with inert gas and close its stopcock.Transfer the tube to the inert gas-filled glove box. Put one piece of aluminum foil on the balance in the glove box, in place of weighing paper. Line the polypropylene plate with another piece of aluminum foil to catch metal filings.Then, tightly hold the large piece of dysprosium metal with the pliers. File off the outer, inactive layer of the metal, over the foil-lined plate, being careful to avoid contact between the file and the pliers, to minimize metal contamination. Then, measure 82 milligrams of freshly-filed dysprosium metal.Place the metal in the Schlenk tube, and stopper the tube with a rubber septum. After that, measure 200 milligrams of anhydrous aluminum chloride into a test tube, and stopper the tube with the second rubber septum. Remove the Schlenk tube and the test tube from the glove box when ready to begin C-F activation.Clamp the Schlenk tube over a magnetic stirrer, and connect it to the Schlenk line. Perform three cycles of drying the mixture under vacuum for ten minutes, and refilling the tube with inert gas. Then, put the Schlenk tube under a positive pressure flow of inert gas, and start stirring the dry mixture.Clamp the test tube of aluminum chloride in the hood, and connect the test tube to a positive flow of inert gas via a needle through the septum. Next, add 10-12 milligrams of iodine to the Schlenk tube, under a positive flow of inert gas. Then, purge a dry, plastic, two milliliter syringe, equipped with a 21 gauge, 120 millimeter hypodermic needle, by filling the syringe with inert gas, and expelling it three times.Draw 1.5 milliliters of the freshly-distilled, dry THF into the purged syringe. Add 5 milliliters of THF to the Schlenk tube, to obtain a deep brown solution. Add the remaining one milliliter of THF drop-wise to the aluminum chloride.If needed, gently swirl the tube to dissolve the aluminum chloride. Then, draw the still warm, yellow-tinged aluminum chloride solution into the syringe, and add it to the reaction mixture in the Schlenk tube. Continue stirring the reaction mixture until the benzofulvene has been fully consumed, which usually takes about one hour.The mixture will first become yellow-brown, and will then become turbid, dark green. Meanwhile, measure into an oven-dry test tube 5 millimoles of the desired nitroalkene. Seal the tube with a rubber stopper, and begin drying the nitroalkene under vacuum via a needle through the septum.After the reaction has proceeded for one hour, take a sample of the mixture with a ten centimeter capillary for thin-layer chromatography. Elute the sample with petroleum ether, and check for a bright yellow spot from benzofulvene. Once the benzofulvene has been consumed, fill the tube of nitroalkene with inert gas.Then, add the dry nitroalkene to the Schlenk tube, under a positive flow of inert gas. The reaction mixture will become yellow-green. Continue stirring the mixture until the nitroalkene has been consumed, which usually takes about one hour.Evaluate the nitroalkene consumption via TLC, with a 95 to 5 by volume petroleum ether and ethyl acetate mixture as the eluant. Upon reaction completion, dilute the product mixture with 20 milliliters of diethyl ether. With the Schlenk tube open in the fume hood, quench the mixture with five milliliters of a one-mole-per-liter aqueous solution of hydrochloric acid.Finally, extract the product into diethyl ether, dry the extract over a magnesium sulfate, and purify the product with silica gel column chromatography. The proposed reaction mechanism involves a lanthanide-mediated CF activation, transmetallation, and nitroalkene addition. Fluorine NMR of the crude product showed two sets of two doublets attributed to the difluroalkene groups of the diastereomeric products.A small amount of the hydrolysed product was observed, owing to the excess of the starting benzofulvene. A significant amount of hydrolysed product is observed if moisture entered the reaction mixture, or if the reaction was quenched before the completion of nitroalkene addition. Starting material may be observed if C-F activation did not go to completion, which may indicate an insufficiently reactive lanthanide.The diastereomers could be separated via slow elution, on a long silica gel column. Using dysprosium, the reaction proceeded well, with a range of two nitroalkenes. While 2-thienyl-substituted benzofulvene successfully reacted with para-chlorophenyl nitroalkene.No reaction occurred under similar conditions if benzofulvene was substituted with the electron-rich para-dimethylamino phenyl group. After watching this video, you should have a good understanding of how to handle reactive lanthanide metals under inert atmosphere, and how to use the strong reduction potential for interesting and synthetic procedures.

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